NASA launches planet-hunter spaceship

April 19, 2018 | 10:07am

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NASA on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time) blasts off a $337 million planet-hunting spaceship designed to scan the skies for signs of planets like Earth where life may exist beyond our solar system.

"Three, two, one and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) soared into the blue sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:51 p.m. (6:51 a.m. Thursday, Manila time).

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