Global Courant
STORY: The telescope named Euclid, named after the ancient Greek mathematician who was called the “father of geometry,” was carried aloft in the payload bay of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that flew from Cape Town around 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). Canaveral Space Force was launched Station.
New insights from the $1.4 billion European Space Agency (ESA) mission, designed to last at least six years, are expected to transform astrophysics and perhaps the understanding of the nature of gravity itself.
