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It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the spacecraft landing in Florida ahead of an expected July liftoff. The Euclid mission will send the eponymous probe to Earth-Sun Lagrange point 2 – the same spot as NASA's James Webb …

  1. Alien Doctor 1.1

    "Euclid's 1.5 million kilometer trip would have begun in Russia and not necessitated an additional leg of 5,170 nautical miles"

    Oh dear, mixing measurement standards again? I think we all know what happened previously.

    1. DS999 Silver badge

      Fortunately

      You can't crash into a Lagrange point, so a similar error to whichever Mars mission had this happen would only result in inconvenience rather than end of mission!

    2. Francis Boyle Silver badge

      I'll give nautical miles a pass. Like the Register sailors get to have their own units.

  2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    "The Euclid mission will send the eponymous probe to Earth-Sun Lagrange point 2 – the same place as NASA's James Webb Telescope"

    Let's hope they don't collide.

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

    2. steamnut

      Agree

      Yes, I agree.

      Either it is a "point" or it isn't and then, will Euclid be behind or in front of JWT?

      1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

        Re: Agree

        L2 along with the other L's is a point. But the payloads orbit around the point because it's not a minima so it takes fuel to stay exactly there.

  3. Potemkine! Silver badge

    My theory is that dark energy doesn't exist. Our universe is surrounded by multiple universes and gravity applies. The bigger our universe is, the closer it is to the next universes, so the gravity force get bigger and tears our universe apart.

    1. Caver_Dave Silver badge
      Joke

      You are a chat bot, fed too many science fiction books (see another story today)

      I claim my prize!

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