A EUROPEAN-BUILT orbital satellite was launched to space yesterday from Florida on a mission to shed new light on the mysterious cosmic phenomena known as dark energy and dark matter, unseen forces scientists say account for 95 per cent of the known universe.
The telescope dubbed Euclid, named for the ancient Greek mathematician called the ‘father of geometry’, was carried aloft in the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A livestream of the liftoff was shown on Nasa TV.
New insights from the $1.4 billion European Space Agency (ESA) mission, designed to last at least six years, are expected to transform astrophysics and perhaps understanding of the very nature of gravity itself.
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