Euclid roll-out to launch pad

On Friday 30 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying ESA’s Euclid space telescope left the Astrotech site and was transferred to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, with a planned launch for 1 July 2023.

ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the  dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This will chart how the Universe has expanded  and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit