Launch:

• Launch: July 2023 from Florida
• Launcher: SpaceX Falcon 9
• Nominal mission duration: ~6 years
• Payload: 1.2 m telescope, Korsch TMA
• Orbit: Sun-Earth L2

Operations:

Euclid will provide science data downlink with K-band telemetry and 4 hours ground station contact. Commanding and housekeeping data will be provided with X-band telemetry. The compressed science data rate is 850 Gbits/day.

Mission operations will be conducted from the European Science Operations Center (ESOC), Darmstadt (Germany); science operations will be conducted from the European Space Astronomy Center (ESAC), Madrid (Spain).

NASA oversees the US role in Euclid. A project office has been established at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. hosts the Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI).