NASA to provide coverage of ESA’s ‘Dark Universe’ mission launch

Artistic rendition of ESA’s 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?
**Credits: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO**

The European Space Agency (ESA) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m., EDT, on 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.

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