A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch NASAs TESS satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 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. Launch is scheduled no earlier than 6:51 p.m. EDT.
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