The rocket engines that lifted TESS.

Port Canaveral, Florida, USA.

TESS is the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite that launched Wednesday evening atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Here you can see the bottom portion of the recovered Falcon 9 first stage perched on the SpaceX sea landing barge. The barge was tugged into Port Canaveral late this morning.

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Airplanes and Rockets