Euclid Space Telescope

[Funkworks]

The Euclid Space Telescope is launching today on a Falcon 9, and will be joining the James Webb Space Telescope at Lagragian point L2.

"While the James Webb Space Telescope launched by NASA late last year allows astronomers to zero in on particular objects from the early universe with unprecedented clarity, Euclid is intended to expose the hidden fabric and mechanics of the cosmos by meticulously charting an enormous swath of the observable universe in 3-D, more than 1 billion galaxies in all.

Dark matter and dark energy cannot be detected directly, but their properties "are encoded in the shapes and positions of the galaxies," said astrophysicist Jason Rhodes, lead scientist for Euclid at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles."

https://www.reuters.com/science/eur...-set-launch-explore-dark-universe-2023-07-01/


Liftoff is scheduled to occur from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Florida on July 1st at 11:12AM EDT (15:12 UTC). The first stage, B1080, is flying for a second time and will land on A Shortfall Of Gravitas.

 

[Hobie1dog]

thanks, that's the first time I've heard about it.

 

[kuririn]

I'm guessing that the Euclid telescope must be a lot lighter than the JWST since it doesn't need the big Ariane 5 booster to get to the same position.