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European Space Agency (ESA)Euclid Mission
7/1/2023
Euclid has a 1.2-meter-diameter telescope designed to operate at both visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
A Teledyne e2v team of engineers, technicians, and scientists designed and manufactured 36 sensors for Euclid’s visible-wavelength camera, which is part of the payload module.
On March 17, 2022, ESA press release N° 9-2022 announced that following Roscosmos' decision to withdraw personnel from Europe's Spaceport, all missions scheduled for launch by Soyuz were put on hold and this affected Galileo M10, Galileo M11, Euclid, EarthCare, and one additional institutional launch.
The same precision propulsion system approach used on Gaia and Euclid will be applied on LISA to keep the interferometer beams accurately pointed at the remote spacecraft 2.5 million kilometers away.
ESA originally planned to launch Euclid on a Soyuz rocket but switched to Falcon 9 due to the unavailability of the Soyuz vehicle.
The European Space Agency planned to launch the Euclid infrared space telescope on a Soyuz in 2023.
European Space Agency will launch the Euclid astrophysics mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2023.
The European Space Agency and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT on Saturday, 2023-07-01 to launch the Euclid spacecraft.
More than 500 individual parts of Euclid’s thermal insulation were developed and produced at Beyond Gravity’s Austrian sites and installed for the mission.
ESA announced its intent in October to launch Euclid and the Hera mission on Falcon 9 and signed a final contract with SpaceX at the end of January.
In October 2022, ESA selected SpaceX to launch Euclid on a Falcon 9, and the launch contract was finalized in December 2022.
More than 500 individual parts of the Euclid thermal insulation developed and produced at Beyond Gravity’s Austrian sites were installed for the mission.
ESA procured Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX for its Euclid space telescope, which launched on 2023-07-01.