SpaceX launches NASA’s planet-finding spacecraft TESS

NASA’s TESS spacecraft will remain in an elongated orbit of the Earth, 67,000 miles away at the very least to keep it well outside of the Van Allen radiation belts. While it can keep an eye on an area 400 times greater than Kepler’s field of view, it will focus on finding planets from nearby …

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