SpaceX Delays Launch Of NASA TESS Telescope

CAPE CANAVERAL—A SpaceX Falcon 9 has been certified to launch NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but the booster won’t be ready to fly at the opening of the mission’s launch window on March 20. Launch from here is now targeted for no earlier than April 16, pending...

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