The first data from the telescope will begin to be received in 2024
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s Euclid Space Telescope launched from Launch Complex 40 at US Space Force Base at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Everything went smoothly, Euclid was sent into space. It is assumed that it will move away from the Earth by about 1.5 million km, and the first data from it will begin to be received in 2024.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches €1bn Euclid space telescope to track dark matter
The cost of “Euclid” is 1 billion euros. It is equipped with a telescope with a diameter of 1.2 meters, an optical camera (Vis), a spectrometer and a near-infrared photometer (Nisp). The telescope will be used to study galaxies. Scientists believe that it will provide new data on dark matter: researchers explain the expansion of the Universe and the growth of galactic superclusters by the influence of dark matter, but this phenomenon has not been fully studied.
