Yvonne Bethel posted an update in the group Discovery 6 years ago
NASA Just Launched The Tess Satellite. Tess Is Expected To Build On The Momentum Of The Soon To Be Abandon Kepler Telescope, Casting A Wider Search For Varieties Of Exoplanets And Life-Sustaining Planets Outside Of Our Solar System. Properties Of Promising Planets Will Probably, In 2020, Be Analyzed By The James Webb Space Telescope.
TESS, NASA’s planet-hunting satellite, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:51 p.m. ET Wednesday. It had a 30-second launch window. The launch was originally scheduled for Monday, but rescheduled to conduct additional Guidance Navigation and Control analysis, the agency said.