{"id":759463,"date":"2023-07-01T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759463"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:03:00","slug":"euclid-on-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759463","title":{"rendered":"Euclid on launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Euclid_on_launch_pad_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying ESA\u2019s <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Euclid<\/a> mission has arrived at its launch pad and is getting ready for its journey to space. Planned lift-off at 16:12 BST\/17:12 CEST today. <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nESA&#8217;s\u202fEuclid\u202fmission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. Euclid 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.\u202f\u202f <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFour weeks after launch, Euclid will enter in orbit around Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. Once in orbit, mission controllers will start the activities to verify all functions of the spacecraft, check out the telescope and finally turn the instruments on.\u202f\u202f <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\/Euclid_launch_kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Find out more about Euclid in the launchkit <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2023\/07\/Euclid_on_launch_pad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Euclid on launch pad<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying ESA\u2019s Euclid mission has arrived at its launch pad and is getting ready for its journey to space. Planned lift-off at 16:12 BST\/17:12 CEST&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759464,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}