Separation confirmed! Dragon is performing three departure burns to move away from the space station. Splashdown in ~22 hours
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Euclid encapsulated & overnight journey to the launch pad. Launch set for tomorrow.
Source: @LaunchPhoto
Source: @LaunchPhoto
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Dragon is on track for splashdown off the coast of Florida today at ~14:30 UTC
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Dragon’s de-orbit burn is complete and its nosecone is closed; splashdown in ~35 minutes off the coast of Florida
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Splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 28th cargo resupply mission to the space station!
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Europe's space telescope to target universe's dark mysteries
After a month-long journey through space, Euclid will join its fellow space telescope James Webb at a stable hovering spot around 1.5 million kilometers (more than 930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrangian Point.
From there, Euclid will chart the largest-ever map of the universe, encompassing up to two billion galaxies across more than a third of the sky.
By capturing light that has taken 10 billion years to reach Earth, the map will also offer a new view of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe's history.
Scientists hope to use this information to address what the Euclid project manager Giuseppe Racca calls a "cosmic embarrassment": that 95 percent of the universe remains unknown to humanity.
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After a month-long journey through space, Euclid will join its fellow space telescope James Webb at a stable hovering spot around 1.5 million kilometers (more than 930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrangian Point.
From there, Euclid will chart the largest-ever map of the universe, encompassing up to two billion galaxies across more than a third of the sky.
By capturing light that has taken 10 billion years to reach Earth, the map will also offer a new view of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe's history.
Scientists hope to use this information to address what the Euclid project manager Giuseppe Racca calls a "cosmic embarrassment": that 95 percent of the universe remains unknown to humanity.
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@EverythingScience
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Europe's space telescope to target universe's dark mysteries
Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.
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The sun rose early as the Euclid telescope is ready to study dark matter! Liftoff is scheduled for 15:12 UTC aboard Falcon 9 from the Cape
Source: @thenasaman
Source: @thenasaman
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Some closeups of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 B1080-2, ready to launch the Euclid telescope
Source: @johnkrausphotos
Source: @johnkrausphotos
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Our three deep space antennas in Australia, Spain and Argentina are configured to hear from Euclid!
Deputy Flight Operations Director, Tiago Loureiro, has communicated the status to the launch site: GREEN!
Estrack is GO for launch 📡〰️🛰
Source: @esaoperations
Deputy Flight Operations Director, Tiago Loureiro, has communicated the status to the launch site: GREEN!
Estrack is GO for launch 📡〰️🛰
Source: @esaoperations
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Falcon 9 went vertical at SLC-40 early this morning ahead of today’s targeted launch of the ESA Euclid mission; weather is currently 90% favorable for liftoff at 15:12 UTC → http://spacex.com/launches
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Briefing complete, mission control is GO for launch 🟢
We are ready, to peer 10 billion years back in time for a cosmic mystery
Source: @esaoperations
We are ready, to peer 10 billion years back in time for a cosmic mystery
Source: @esaoperations
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15:12 UTC. Expected to go live in an hour
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ESA Euclid Mission
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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