The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite lifts off at 6:51 p.m. EDT.
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) lifts off at 6:51 p.m. EDT. TESS will search for planets outside of our solar system. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. The satellite will survey the nearest and brightest stars for two years to search for transiting exoplanets.
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