Blastoff! SpaceX launches Euclid 'dark universe' space observatory, nails landing
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches ESA's Euclid space telescope from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 1, 2023. Euclid is a dark matter and dark energy hunter. The rocket's firs...

Watch the European satellite, called Euclid, soar to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Space Coast. The launch took place today, July 1, at 11:11 a.m EDT.

  • chamaeleon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, which is roughly 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from our planet on the opposite side of the sun.

    This seems a little poorly stated. L2 and the sun are on opposite sides of earth. As written it seems to read as if earth and L2 are on opposite sides of the sun.