SpaceX Launches New NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope

Credit: TESS launch: NASA Television
COLORADO SPRINGS—A Space X Falcon 9 rocket soared off its seaside launchpad at Cape Canaveral on April 18 to send NASA’s planet-hunting TESS telescope on its way to an operational orbit as far away as the Moon. After a two-day delay to address an issue with the rocket’s guidance navigation system...

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