UPDATE: April 16,????? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? 2018, 4:20 p.m. EDT NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the expected launch of the TESS telescope on Monday. SpaceX is expected to launch the planet-hunting telescope to orbit on Wednesday instead due guidance, navigation, and control of the rcoket.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Our updated story is below.
On Wednesday, SpaceX is scheduled to launch NASA's alien planet-hunting telescope TESS to orbit.
TESS -- short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite -- will search the sky to examine thousands of stars, sending vital information back to scientists on Earth to help them find planets that may be like our own. Such planets would be candidates for harboring life.
SEE ALSO: Here's how NASA's TESS will hunt for alien planetsThe NASA mission is expected to launch to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. You can watch the launch live in the window below.
About 10 minutes after launch, SpaceX is expected to land the first stage of the rocket back on Earth on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. (You can watch that cool bit of high-flying rocket action in the window below as well.)
Once in space, TESS will embark on a two-year mission to survey about 85 percent of the sky, which holds about 20 million stars.
The spacecraft will look for minuscule dips in the light of those stars that would indicate that a planet passed between its star and the telescope, blocking out a bit of the star's light from TESS's perspective.
"...TESS will open our eyes to the variety of planets around some of the closest stars,” Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director, said in a statement.
“TESS will cast a wider net than ever before for enigmatic worlds whose properties can be probed by NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope and other missions.”
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable By following up on TESS's finds with other telescopes like the James Webb, scientists might be able to learn even more about the newfound worlds.
Those future observations could help scientists piece together the compositions of the planets' atmospheres and maybe even establish whether they can host life as we know it.
But first, SpaceX has to get TESS safely to space.
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: James Evicted from ‘Big Brother’; Ratings Plummet
Let these Instagram accounts tell you what dog, sandwich, and Guy Fieri you are
The whitewashing of roller skating's online revival
Breonna Taylor's death shouldn't be an insensitive Twitter meme
LBank to Publish an Auditable Merkle Tree and Proof of Reserves
This doctor built an algorithm for wrinkle
Tinder user seems to have uncovered a new 'Platinum' paid tier the app is testing
'Headspace Minis' let you meditate with friends directly in Snapchat
Brussels Blockchain Week
Here are the 13 best tweets of the week
Media and Consultancy Startup PANONY Valued at $100M
Olivia Colman's Oscar speech reimagined as the months of 2020 is perfection
Sir Ian McKellen recorded a very sweet video for Sir Patrick Stewart's 80th birthday
Olivia Colman's Oscar speech reimagined as the months of 2020 is perfection
LBank Exchange Will List Future of Fintech (FOF) On July 15, 2022
TikTok will finally pay its biggest creators directly
The friendship lessons we've learned during the pandemic
Eating in the age of COVID
MetaWeek 2022 Dubai: Featuring Top
White House lies about 'Paw Patrol' being canceled and everything is so stupid
Trump fits in bizarre Roy Moore comments right before he leaves for ThanksgivingThese are the real, terrible human turkeys Trump has pardoned21 jokes written by kids that are so bad they're actually goodBest Kindle deal: Save $15 on Kindle Essentials BundleBeyoncé gave us all an early holiday gift with festive new merchThis woman was so sick of people touching her hair, she made a game about itYouTube adds more moderation to YouTube kids to find violent videosLena Dunham issues a hollow apology for defending a 'Girls' writer accused of rapeInsane video shows a truck narrowly miss a fallen kid13 times nature was scary AF in 2017 Elon Musk and The Rock bonded over these cursed Photoshopped memes The 'Thanks, I hate it' subreddit is a great home for a timeless meme The 'grandpa' of ASMR has created a heartwarming community on YouTube The complex allure of cursed images Victoria Beckham had a Spice Girls drag performance at her London Fashion Week after party Why the 'Brooklyn Nine Please enjoy the star of the 2019 Spirit Awards: Glenn Close's dog Pip Mario Balotelli celebrates a goal by immediately posting a video to Instagram The curse of the Twitter reply guy Watch the powerful moment Cohen stared directly into the camera and slammed Trump
0.1839s , 10001.125 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【????? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ??????】Watch SpaceX send NASA's alien,Feature Flash
