[…] A once-used Falcon 9 booster successfully launched Europe’s Euclid telescope early Saturday, kicking off an ambitious six-year mission to measure the outward acceleration of the Universe and generate a better understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The 4,700-pound (2,100-kilogram) observatory—named in honor of the ancient Greek mathematician and “father of geometry”, Euclid of Alexandria—took flight from storied Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., at 11:12 a.m. EDT, aboard the same Falcon 9 that lifted Ax-2’s Peggy Whitson, John Shoffner, Ali Al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi for their nine-day research expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) in late May. […]
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