Euclid is launching in a SpaceX Falcon 9
Giuseppe Racca (ESA Project Manager), March 2023
In December 2022, following an intense feasibility study, we kicked off a Launch Service contract with SpaceX. The vehicle that will bring Euclid in a transfer trajectory to the L2 halo orbit is Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral launch pad 39A or SLC-40.
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Updates from the Local Organising Committee of the Euclid Consortium meeting 2023
Bitten Gullberg, on behalf of the LOC
The first Euclid consortium meeting was held in the Black Diamond in Copenhagen in 2012. Now, more than a decade later, the meeting will again be held in the Danish capital from 19th to 23rd June 2023. This time the meeting will be held at CPH Conference, near the main station in the heart of the city. The meeting is organised with the support of ESA.
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Euclid is a space mission in the making. We are the consortium of more than 2500 scientists and engineers partnering with ESA, to build the so far most powerful telescope for studying the nature of Dark Energy, Dark Matter and cosmology in general. We have been designing and constructing the two instruments on-board Euclid, are obtaining complementary ground-based data, develop the data analysis system, as well as simulate, test, iterate and improve all of the above again and again.
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The primary aim of the Euclid mission is to stringently test our current cosmological model by precisely measuring the shapes and positions of a billion faint galaxies. This ambitious goal must be achieved within a limited budget which in turn sets strict constraints on the overall mass of the satellite and the mission duration.
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