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NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter

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In space, no one can hear you bork

NASA has confirmed that its planet hunter, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), entered safe mode due to a command error that inadvertently left the spacecraft’s solar arrays angled away from the Sun.…

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