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SpaceX successfully launched and deployed NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite on Wednesday night.

Delighting scientists and space fans who anticipate the spacecraft may discover planets that could harbor life, it also landed the first-stage booster at sea, the space company’s 24th such recovery.

After TESS deployed, it successfully deployed its solar arrays.

CNBC said Elon Musk’s rocket company projected the liftoff livestream from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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Delayed multiple times from March, the company’s mission to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS) for NASA was ready to launch.

All systems and weather are go for Falcon 9’s launch of @NASA_TESS today at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/VgME3YRqwR

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) 18 avril 2018

Nicknamed “the planet hunter,” the $337 million TESS will deploy into its first orbit just under an hour after launch, when SpaceX’s part of the mission will be complete. TESS will then use a series of complex maneuvers to head into a never-before-used orbit, reaching about 232,000 miles beyond the Earth, to photograph the skies.

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SpaceX lifts off with NASA’s planet-hunter TESS

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