Euclid | Lift-off
ESA’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.
Euclid has now started its month-long journey to Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, in the opposite direction from the Sun.
The telescope will survey one third of the sky with unprecedented accuracy and sensitivity. By observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, it will create the most extensive 3D-map of the Universe, with the third dimension representing time.
ESA’s Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. Euclid will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Four weeks after launch, Euclid will enter its orbit around L2. Once in orbit, mission controllers will start the activities to verify all functions of the spacecraft, check out the telescope and finally turn the instruments on.
Following this, scientists and engineers will be engaged in an intense two-month phase of testing and calibrating Euclid’s scientific instruments, and preparing for routine observations. The telescope begins its early phase of the survey of the Universe three months after launch.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_launch_kit
Credits: SpaceX
00:00 – 01:00 Lift-off
01:00 – 02:25 MAX-Q
02:25 – 03:20 Fairing separation
03:20 – 04:50 Feather deployment
04:50 – 05:20 Second Stage Engine Cutoff
05:20 – 06:02 Booster landing in the ocean
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Ahaaa! fire a laser at a quartz crystal and make it vibrate causing radio and gravity waves?🤔😁use two crystals!what do you know star trek was right di lithium crystals er..I'm off enjoy!space is big!!😁👍
ESA ? ESA? ESA?
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congratulation to spacex
Incredible landing. – Just F*****g incredible – – Big props to all the people that made this happen!
Vive la Falcon9 de SpaceX, j'espère et je souhaite que dans le futur, l'ESA puisse faire mieux que SpaceX 🙂
Congratulations for this launch.
Where can we follow the deployment of Euclid ? Like JWST on the month to L2 .
This initial great accomplishment confirms this writer's prediction published 11 months prior on 6 August 3022.
fantastic events Wow