A mission designed to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of the universe is ready to launch
. The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is expected to lift off at 11:12 a.m. ET Saturday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Both NASA and ESA will provide live streams, with coverage starting at 10:30 a.m. ET. After launch, Euclid will separate from the rocket at 11:53 a.m. ET, and mission control expects to receive a signal from the telescope a few minutes later at 11:57 a.m. ET. The 1.
The telescope was named in honor of Euclid of Alexandria, the Greek mathematician who lived around 300 BC and is considered the father of geometry. While primarily an ESA mission, the telescope includes contributions from NASA and more than 2,000 scientists across 13 European countries, the United States, Canada and Japan. The telescope’s image quality will be four times sharper than those of ground-based sky surveys.
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