Euclid

2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science

Euclid

Maps the dark universe through a wide extragalactic survey.

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Launch
1 Jul 2023
Lead / partner
ESA
Target
Sun–Earth L2
Category
Space observatory
Status
Operational
Vehicle
Falcon 9
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
Sun–Earth L2
Duration
6 years (nominal) (in progress)

Why it happened

Euclid flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of ESA's work toward sun–earth l2. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Maps the dark universe through a wide extragalactic survey.

Results

Maps the dark universe through a wide extragalactic survey.

Related missions

Euclid James Webb Space Telescope — same_target James Webb Sp… Gaia — same_target Gaia XPoSat — same_program XPoSat SPHEREx — same_program SPHEREx

Gaia

Success

ESA · 2013

SPHEREx

Operational

United States · 2025

Sources & image credits

  • ESA (acknowledgement: work performed by ATG under contract t, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · license: cc-by-sa-3.0-igo (source, checked 2026-08-24)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog