NASA launches the satellite to search for the planet TESS

The American Aerospace Agency (NASA) launched on April 18 the TESS satellite to search for alien life.

The launch was done with SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1 8 51 local time (5:51 am April 19, Hanoi time).

NASA rocket launcher system at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.(Photo: NASA).

NASA said the first floor of the rocket had split off and returned to Earth in a self-guided mode to land on a platform floating on the Atlantic Ocean. This first floor of SpaceX Falcon 9 will be reused in subsequent launches.

TESS, about the size of a $ 337 million washing machine, was built to search and investigate the brightest stars outside the Solar System to detect life. NASA hopes TESS will discover 20,000 planets outside the Solar System, including more than 50 Earth-sized planets and about 500 planets smaller than Earth twice.

TESS's findings will continue to be studied by telescopes placed on Earth and in space to look for signs of the conditions in which life can exist, including topography and similar sizes. facing the Earth and the distance to their sun.

Earlier, NASA announced the launch of TESS at 1832 on April 16, but was subsequently postponed due to problems with the rocket's navigation system.