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SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope on a six year mission to map the 'dark universe' like never before [Video] (cdn.jwplayer.com)
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Watch the European satellite, called Euclid, soar to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. The launch took place today, July 1, at 11:11 a.m EDT.

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[–] chamaeleon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, which is roughly 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from our planet on the opposite side of the sun.

This seems a little poorly stated. L2 and the sun are on opposite sides of earth. As written it seems to read as if earth and L2 are on opposite sides of the sun.

[–] zhunk 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they described it like L3

[–] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying this. I couldn’t figure out what they meant.