ESA Euclid Mission
Euclid is a European Space Agency observatory surveying billions of galaxies to study how dark matter and dark energy shape the composition and evolution of the Universe. Falcon 9 injected the spacecraft toward the Sun-Earth L2 region, and ground controllers acquired its signal 45 minutes after launch. Euclid subsequently began its planned cosmology survey from a halo orbit around L2.
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- EuclidESA Euclid
- Name
- ESA Euclid Mission
- Status
- active
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- Description
- Euclid is a European Space Agency observatory surveying billions of galaxies to study how dark matter and dark energy shape the composition and evolution of the Universe. Falcon 9 injected the spacecraft toward the Sun-Earth L2 region, and ground controllers acquired its signal 45 minutes after launch. Euclid subsequently began its planned cosmology survey from a halo orbit around L2.
- Destination
- Large halo orbit around the Sun–Earth Lagrange point 2 (L2), about 1.5 million km from Earth, for mapping billions of galaxies and studying dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic structure
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Successfully injected toward Sun-Earth L2 and acquired by ESA ground controllers after separation
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2023-07-01
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- Creation Time
- July 20, 2026 at 01:22:46 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 13:47:53 UTC
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