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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A zoomed-in (16x) area of Euclid's Deep Field South, a mosaic captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, revealing galaxies with different shapes and colors because they have ...

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.

The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy. Known as an Einstein ring, the halo was captured in ...

Euclid was one of two ESA missions that had been scheduled to launch on Soyuz. The other, an Earth science mission called EarthCARE, will launch on Europe’s Vega C, Ashcbacher said.

On July 1, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid spacecraft will launch on a mission to explore the very essence of the universe. Euclid will spend six years learning the positions, shapes ...