SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope successfully launched at 10:11 p.m. on July 1 (Hanoi time).
The Euclid Space Telescope launched on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The launch took place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Florida, USA. Observers cheered as the Falcon 9 rocket carrying Euclid lifted off, with the rocket’s first stage separating and precisely landing on an unmanned ship in the Atlantic Ocean in just around eight minutes.
Suclid, designed to search for dark energy and invisible dark matter, separated from the rocket about 41 minutes after launch and is now en route to Lagrange Point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and at an altitude opposite the Sun. The Lagrange point is a relatively stable orbit where satellites consume the least fuel. Euclid’s destination is quite popular. For example, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope also operates at Lɑgrange 2.
Scientists believe that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe, but humans cannot see these phenomena at wavelengths of light. Instead, experts can track them through their impact on other objects.
Scientists study how the dark universe works to trace the effects of time on the universe. The merging of galaxies, the expansion of the universe, and the movements of individual stars are all influenced by dark energy and dark matter.
Illustration of the Euclidean telescope in action in space.
Illustration of the Euclidean telescope working in space. (Photo: ATG/ESA)
Euclid will turn its gaze to the outer regions to map about a third of the sky beyond the Milky Way. During the six-year mission, the telescope will map billions of targets such as galaxies and stars. Two Euclid science instruments, focusing on visible and infrared wavelengths of light, will record information for scientists.
The mission will explore the movement and chemistry of distant objects. “Eyes” Euclid’s sharpness provides images at least four times brighter than ground-based telescopes because it is far from Earth’s disturbing light and atmosphere.
The Euclid project is worth around $1.5 billion and has been running for almost two decades. This telescope will take about 30 days to reach Lagrange 2. Experts have not announced when to take the first scientific image, but it is estimated that it will take several months.
Article source: VnExpress
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope successfully launched at 10:11 p.m. on July 1 (Hanoi time).
