EUCLID

10-day predictions
EUCLID is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 57209

Int'l Code: 2023-092A

Launch date: July 1, 2023
Source: European Space Agency (ESA)
Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR)

EUCLID is a spacecraft carrying a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light and a near-infrared spectrometer and photometer to determine the redshift of the detected galaxies. It was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium and was launched on 1 July 2023. After about a month it will reach its destination, a Lissajous orbit around the Lagrange point L2, at an average distance of 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth’s orbit, where centrifugal and gravitational forces are such that objects move in tandem with the earth around the sun. The telescope is expected to remain operational for at least six years.