SpaceX Sends Dark Energy Telescope A Million Miles Away From Earth At 27,000 Km/h+
This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.
SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's (ESA) remarkable Euclid satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier today. Euclid is the latest in a series of new observation satellites that have launched recently, but it is one of the few designed to study more than a billion galaxies at different wavelengths and analyze an unbelievable ten billion years of time. Euclid will travel nearly a million miles away from Earth, and it has a 1.2 meter telescope that sends light to two instruments that are capable of processing infrared and visible light.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Cape at 11:12 am local time and soon sent the second stage to space. The Euclid telescope launch was SpaceX's 44th mission of 2023 and the 243rd overall mission, with the booster for the launch being a new rocket that had only flown once previously to take a crew of private astronauts to space.
ESA's Euclid telescope is one of the more exceptional satellites that aims to study the nature of the universe, dark matter and dark energy. Its mission timeline is six years and while ESA states that the duration can be extended, it will eventually be limited by the amount of cold gas available on board to maneuver the spacecraft.
Through the satellite, ESA plans to study an unbelievable ten billion years of time as it peeks deep into the universe to understand the structure of galaxies and other parameters. The telescope's ambitious objectives are to catalog a whopping 1.5 billion galaxies and compare their brightness at different light wavelengths. This catalog will enable astronomers to
Read more on wccftech.com
