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NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission

June 26, 2023
This artist’s concept shows the ESA (European Space Agency) Euclid mission in space.

This artist’s concept shows the ESA (European Space Agency) Euclid mission in space. Euclid is designed to look far and wide to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe: What are dark matter and dark energy? What role did they play in formation of the cosmic web?

Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

The Euclid mission will focus on illuminating dark matter and dark energy.

The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 a.m. PDT) Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is an ESA mission with contributions from NASA that will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe.

Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA is contributing to the Euclid mission by delivering critical hardware for one of the spacecraft’s instruments, providing science team funding, and establishing a U.S.-based Euclid data processing center. Experts from NASA who are participating in Euclid are available for interviews upon request.

Live launch coverage from ESA will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website starting July 1, at 10:30 a.m. Follow online at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

Follow NASA social media accounts and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory social media accounts for mission updates.

News Media Contact

Alise Fisher / Liz Landau

NASA Headquarters, Washington

202-358-2546 / 202-358-0845

alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov / elizabeth.r.landau@nasa.gov

Calla Cofield

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

626-808-2469

calla.e.cofield@jpl.nasa.gov

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