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- NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope is scheduled to launch Monday aboard a SpaceX rocket.
- The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may find thousands of worlds relatively close to Earth.
- Scientists hope to discover about 50 small, rocky planets that may be habitable to alien life.
- SpaceX and NASA TV will broadcast live video during TESS’s launch at 6:32 p.m. EDT.
NASA’s newest planet-hunting is set to launch into orbit on Monday aboard a rocket built by Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX.
The new spacecraft is called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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