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News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX rocket launched a new space telescope into orbit Saturday (July 1) on a mission to map the "dark universe" like never before.   The European Space Agency observatory, called Euclid, soared to space today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:11…

One of Europe's most high-profile science missions is slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this weekend, potentially giving scientists deeper insight into the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. Launch of the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida,…

An artist’s concept of the Euclid mission in space.Illustration: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up for the launch of its highly anticipated mission to explore the cosmic dark side. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View The Euclid space…

News Science & Astronomy Update for 12:15 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched the Euclid space telescope into orbit and deployed the dark matter hunting observatory to end the launch phase. The space observatory is now headed toward its final destination 1 million miles from Earth at Lagrange point 2.…

WASHINGTON — A European spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to help astronomers resolve an “embarrassing situation” in cosmology, although the launch itself is another kind of embarrassing situation for Europe. The European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft is ready to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff…

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The boys are fighting. By “boys,” of course, we mean tech billionaires Elon Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and most recently Twitter, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Meta (formerly Facebook), which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. They are 51 and 39 years old, respectively — and we regret…

Mars Direct 3 offers a modular approach to solving the many challenges for a SpaceX Starship Mars mission. This includes the development of a new Mars lander -based on SpaceX’s Starship vehicle- to serve as the crewed ship, while keeping the Starship as a cargo ship, though a Starship-only approach…

SpaceX’s Starship sits atop its Super Heavy booster prior to the the launcher’s first test flight in April 2023. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX will need another six weeks or so to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy-Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster’s Texas launch pad before it will…