Falcon 9 Block 5 | Euclid
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 258th launch · 45th this year · humanity's 6,466th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule
Window: Jul 1, 15:12 – Jul 1, 15:12 UTC
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Euclid
European Space Agency telescope designed to explore the evolution of the dark Universe. It will make a 3D-map of the Universe (with time as the third dimension) by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky.
Astrophysics · Sun-Earth L2 (L2)
Booster
- B1080 · flight 2 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ A Shortfall of Gravitas · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 2 · zone record 161/162
Watch
- ESA Euclid Mission — SpaceX
- Euclid: Journey to darkness — European Space Agency, ESA
Updates
Successful launch of the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2.
Nosu · 7/1/2023 · source
Liftoff
Nosu · 7/1/2023 · source
Livestream has started
LL2 · 7/1/2023 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/1/2023 · source
Weather 90%
Nosu · 6/29/2023 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/24/2023 · source
Updating T-0
Nosu · 6/14/2023 · source
Adding T-0
Nosu · 6/6/2023 · source
NET July
Nosu · 2/20/2023 · source
Q3 2023
Nosu · 1/9/2023 · source
News
Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe
From the ESA Blogs.
Thousands of planets are hidden in this photo
Millions of stars. Thousands of hidden worlds. One unprecedented view of our galaxy.
Euclid studies Milky Way center, supports future Roman observations
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released a new picture of the center of the…
Euclid Sees Heart of Milky Way
Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, took a new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, seen in this image released on June 24, 2026. This observation overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching later this summer. This sneak peek gives […]
Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman
A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching later this summer. This sneak peek gives astronomers a major jumpstart on a core Roman survey, helping scientists […]
ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart
From the ESA Blogs.
Pad — Space Launch Complex 40
Local pad time: Jul 1, 11:12 AM EDT
394 launches from this pad · 1,122 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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