While ESA announced in October its intent to launch Euclid and another mission, Hera, on the Falcon 9, the agency did not sign a final contract with SpaceX until the end of January.

Euclid was already built and well into its final round of pre-launch testing when ESA had to search for a new launch vehicle. The backup option, a European Ariane 6 rocket, is still in development ...

The Euclid telescope is only about 14.7 feet tall (4.5 meters) and 10 feet (3.1 meters) in diameter. But it has a big mission ahead of it as it will explore the nature of dark matter and dark ...

If you’d prefer to tune into just the key moments, ESA has provided an expected schedule as follows: 11:11 a.m. ET: Euclid launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 11:53 a.m. ET: Separation of Euclid from Falcon 9 ...

This artist’s concept shows the ESA (European Space Agency) Euclid mission in space. ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The space telescope separated from the Falcon 9 rocket and is now on its way to its ...

Euclid is targeted to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 11:11 local time / 16:11 BST / 17:11 CEST on Saturday 1 July 2023. A back-up launch date of Sunday ...

The second and last launch of the week is a Falcon 9 carrying ESA’s Euclid space observatory. Euclid is a space telescope designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe.

ESA will broadcast Euclid’s launch through its Web TV, as well as the space agency’s Youtube channel, with the livestream beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET. NASA will also livestream the launch of ...

On 15 April, Euclid set sail for a port near its launch location in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the ESA announced today. The spacecraft is expected to reach the take-off site at the beginning of May.

ESA/Euclid Consortium/NASA et al / SWNS. A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings Euclid had made between late ...