ESA’s Euclid spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.
The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious mission to uncover the nature of two mysterious components of our Universe: dark matter and dark energy, and to help us answer the fundamental question: what is the Universe made of?
Read the launch press release here:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_lifts_off_on_quest_to_unravel_the_cosmic_mystery_of_dark_matter_and_dark_energy
Watch the launch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oJcqXty4c
And read more about the Euclid space telescope here:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid