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RSS FeedsNASA Is Launching A Planet-Hunting Satellite Today [Update: Launch Successful]
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19 april 2018 02:03:32

 
NASA Is Launching A Planet-Hunting Satellite Today [Update: Launch Successful]
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Update: The satellite has been successfully deployed by the Falcon 9 rocket, and the rocket successfully returned to Earth and landed on SpaceX`s droneship. You can check out the full replay of the launch and landing in the video below.Original Story:The latest SpaceX rocket is scheduled for launch later today, and it will carry a pretty awesome NASA-funded project into space. The Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to search the stars for other planets outside our solar system, and it`s equipped with new tech in order for it to be able to detect relatively small planets orbiting other suns.Currently, we have located about 3800 exoplanets using other telescopes, specifically by the Kepler spacecraft which was launched in 2009. But the Kepler mission has been only partly functional for several years, after a series of mechanical failures. In order to improve exoplanet detection capabilities, NASA, with backing from Google, awarded funding to a team from MIT to develop a new planet-hunting satellite. That project eventually resulted in TESS. NASA estimates that TESS will detect more than 20,000 planets over the course of its two-year primary mission.The satellite will be carried aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into its orbit trajectory. The rocket is slated for launch today at 3:51 PT / 6:51 ET / 10:51 UTC. You can watch the launch in the video embedded above. Although the primary objective is, obviously, to successfully deploy the satellite, this is also one of the SpaceX rockets which will attempt a landing. The rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its first stage will attempt to land on one of SpaceX`s drone ships.SpaceX has made a habit out of landing its rockets over the past couple of years; if successful, this would be the 24th recovered booster. SpaceX is using the Falcon 9 for this launch; in the future, it will transition certain payloads over to its more powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. In addition, the company rec ...


 
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