See live from 10:30 a.m. EDT on July 1
Tune into ESA Web television straight or via the ESA Youtube livestream to follow the launch live:
10:30 a.m.– 12:10 p.m. Launch program
Secret milestones
On launch day the following essential milestones will be included in the launch program and covered by ESA social media channels.
11:11 a.m.– Euclid launch on SpaceX Falcon 911:53 a.m.– Separation of Euclid from Falcon 911:57 a.m.– Earliest anticipated time to get Euclids signal
Times are particular to the launch happening on July 1 and may differ by a few minutes.
ESAs Euclid mission is created to uncover the residential or commercial properties and effects of the elusive dark matter and dark energy, entities believed to be controling the universes structure but stay undetected straight. Euclid will develop a 3D map of the Universe, using time as its 3rd measurement, by observing billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away.
The main goal of the Euclid mission is much better understanding of the nature of dark energy and dark matter, 2 of the biggest mysteries of modern-day physics. The mission intends to do this by surveying galaxies in the universe, leveraging a 1.2-meter diameter telescope and 2 instruments to record near-infrared and noticeable images.
The Euclid mission will try to map the geometry of the dark Universe by investigating the distance-redshift relationship and the advancement of cosmic structures. This will be achieved by determining shapes and redshifts of galaxies and clusters of galaxies out to redshifts ~ 2, or equivalently to a look-back time of 10 billion years. Through this, the mission wishes to much better comprehend the speeding up expansion of deep space, which is currently associated to a mysterious dark energy.
Euclid is a pioneering mission to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the origin of the Universes accelerating growth, as well as the mystical nature of dark energy, dark matter, and gravity. ESAs Euclid objective is designed to uncover the properties and impacts of the evasive dark matter and dark energy, entities thought to be dominating the universes structure but stay undetected straight. Euclid will develop a 3D map of the Universe, using time as its third measurement, by observing billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away. The Euclid mission will try to map the geometry of the dark Universe by investigating the distance-redshift relationship and the advancement of cosmic structures.
This artists impression illustrates ESAs Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is a pioneering objective to observe billions of faint galaxies and examine the origin of the Universes accelerating expansion, in addition to the strange nature of dark energy, dark matter, and gravity. Credit: ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) will be relaying live as the Euclid area telescope, which will explore the dark Universe, is targeted to release on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 11:11 EDT (regional time)/ 16:11 BST/ 17:11 CEST on Saturday, July 1, 2023. A backup launch date of Sunday, July 2, 2023, is foreseen.
Heres how to follow the launch online.
Perpetuity in EDT. Times subject to change at short notice.