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- NASA has partnered with private space launching company SpaceX to launch Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for exoplanets using the transit method.
- The mission will be launched in April 2018 on board of Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
- It is equipped with four wide-angle telescopes.
- The primary mission objective of TESS is to survey brightest stars near Earth.
- This will reveal whether planets are rocky (like Earth), gas (like Jupiter) or something even more unusual.
- TESS will occupy a never-before-used orbit high above Earth.
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