NASA’s Exoplanet Observing Satellite Deployed from Launch Vehicle

Placed in Sun-Synchronous Orbit Following Separation from SpaceX’s Second Stage

NASA’s Pandora space telescope satellite is in sun-synchronous orbit, preparing to study planets and their respective host stars beyond our solar system.

Pandora will spend the next year conducting detailed observations of 20 exoplanets to determine whether any of their atmospheres contain water vapor, hazes, and clouds. It will simultaneously study thei…