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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX rocket launched a new space telescope into orbit Saturday on a mission to map the"dark universe" like never before. Falcon 9 rocket at 11:11 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 here at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.booster carried Euclid aloft, with the first stage handily touching down just eight minutes later on a drone ship stationed nearby in the Atlantic Ocean.
The long survey mission will uncover the movements of these distant objects, along with their chemical makeup. From space, Euclid's sharp eyes will allow for images at least four times more clear than what telescopes achieve from the ground, given the spacecraft will be far away from Earth's interfering atmosphere and stray light.
The 1.4 billion Euro Euclid has been in the works for nearly two decades. It was forged fromproposed in 2007: Dune and Space , which used different but complementing ways of looking at dark energy. Given how well the two missions worked with each other, they were combined into one powerful observatory: Euclid.'s science program committee selected Euclid for space in 2011 and formally adopted the program in 2012.
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