(AGENPARL) – lun 26 giugno 2023 June 26, 2023 
MEDIA ADVISORY M23-079
*NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission*
euclid_looking_into_the_universe.jpg
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?
*/Credits: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than
11:11 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft [1]. 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 [2],
and the agency’s website starting July 1, at 10:30 a.m. Follow online at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/live [3]*
in Florida.
Follow NASA social media accounts [5] and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
social media accounts [6] for mission updates.
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[2] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/live
[5] https://www.nasa.gov/socialmedia
[6] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/social