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TESS Spacecraft Solar Panel Array Deployment Testing
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Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first of two solar panels is being deployed on the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The satellite is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. TESS is the next step in NASA's search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineTESS Spacecraft Solar Panel Array Deployment Testing. NASA/KSC, 2018-02-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-20180221-PH_LCH01_0053.
