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China will launch satellite to search for Earth clones
With 10 to 15 times stronger than NASA's Kepler telescope, the new Chinese satellite will find exoplanets in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
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With 10 to 15 times stronger than NASA's Kepler telescope, the new Chinese satellite will find exoplanets in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
CHEOPS satellite is like a telescope, designed to measure the thickness, structure and size of many planets outside the solar system.
The launch was done with SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 18:51 local time (5:51 on April 19, Hanoi time).