After a more than ten-year long journey of planning, building, and painstaking management the launch day of Euclid has finally arrived. If all goes as planned, Euclid will launch with a Falcon 9 rocket today, on July 1st 5.11pm CEST, from Cape Canaveral. Should there be problems (such as bad weather), the launch will always be postponed to the next day by exactly 24h.
The final destination near the Lagrange point 2, roughly five times the distance of Moon from the Earth, will then be reached after about a month. The full survey will take six years to be finished. For a livestream link of the launch, go here.
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