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ESA’s Euclid spacecraft is approximately 4.7 m tall and 3.7 m in diameter. It consists of two major components: the service module and the payload module.<br>The payload module comprises a 1.

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English: ESA’s Euclid spacecraft is approximately 4.7 m tall and 3.7 m in diameter. It consists of two major components: the service module and the payload module.
The payload module comprises a 1.2 m diameter telescope and two scientific instruments: a visible-wavelength camera (the VISible instrument, VIS) and a near-infrared camera/spectrometer (the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer, NISP).
The service module contains the satellite systems: electric power generation and distribution, attitude control, data processing electronics, propulsion, telecommanding and telemetry, and thermal control.
Euclid is designed to provide both excellent quality imaging in the visible, and spectroscopy and photometry in the near infrared. The sunshield keeps the telescopes and instruments shaded from the Sun to ensure thermal stability and highly sensitive measurements. It will make sure VIS operates at -33 °C and NISP at -180 °C.
To store the large data volume that will be accumulated during observations, Euclid has a mass memory of 4 terabits.
Euclid is ESA’s space telescope designed to explore the dark Universe. The mission will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe ever produced across 10 billion years of cosmic time. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Date 16 May 2023 (upload date)
Source Euclid spacecraft
Author European Space Agency
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