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Euclid

Image: ESA · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons

Image: ESA · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons

Launched
1 Jul 202315:12:00 UTC
Active for
3 years 4 months
Destinations
Sun–Earth L2

An ESA mission mapping the shapes and distances of billions of galaxies across a third of the sky, to study dark matter and dark energy.

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Spacecraft

Euclid

Telescope
Active

Telescope with a 1.2 m mirror feeding a visible-light camera and a near-infrared instrument.

Launch mass
1,921 kg
Dry mass
1,711 kg
Size
4.5 m × 3.1 m, span 4.5 m
Power
Solar
Designator
2023-092A

Mission details from esa.int.