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ENSCI at the 240th AAS Meeting

June 9th, 2022

ENSCI will be present at the 240th AAS meeting in Pasadena next week, June 12-16, 2022.

Integration of Euclid's instrument payload and supporting service modules

March 31st, 2022

Integration of the payload and supporting service modules of ESA's Euclid mission has completed at Thales Alenia in Turin, a major milestone in mission readiness.

ESA Statement Regarding Cooperation With Russia

March 1st, 2022

ESA has released a statement deploring the human casualties and tragic consequences of the war in Ukraine: "We are giving absolute priority to taking proper decisions, not only for the sake of our workforce involved in the programmes, but in full respect of our European values, which have always fundamentally shaped our approach to international...

Euclid Integration Tour

February 23rd, 2022

Euclid is in its final stage before launch: mission integration. You can now take a brief guided tour of Euclid in the clean room at Thales Alenia Space in Turin (Italy).

Integration of Euclid's service and payload modules has started

December 14th, 2021

The Euclid payload and service modules are currently at Thales Alenia Space in Torino, Italy, where they will be integrated to form the final, finished spacecraft. The integration of the service and payload modules has started.

Euclid's optical and infrared instruments integrated in spacecraft

April 15th, 2021

The optical and infrared instruments of Euclid have passed their qualification and acceptance reviews and are now fully integrated into the spacecraft's payload module. This marks an important milestone for the Euclid mission (scheduled for launch in 2022).

Euclid Instruments Delivered to ESA

July 9th, 2020

The Euclid mission has reached another milestone towards launch in 2022. Its two instruments, VIS and NISP, are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defense and Space in Toulouse, France, where they are now being integrated with the telescope to form the mission's payload module.

Panel Discussion: US Archival Science with Euclid

May 26th, 2020

IPAC will host an online panel discussion, "US Archival Science with Euclid", on June 8, 2020 at 11am PDT to discuss future opportunities for US-based archival science with Euclid. To register, please email the ENSCI helpdesk (ensci-support@ipac.caltech.edu).

Arianespace and ESA announce the Euclid satellite’s launch contract for dark energy exploration

April 6th, 2020

Arianespace and ESA have announced the signing of a launch services contract for the Euclid satellite – with the mission’s timeframe for liftoff starting in mid-2022 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Completion of the structural and thermal tests of the Euclid satellite

September 19th, 2019

Thales and ESA have announced the completion of the structural and thermal tests of the Euclid satellite using the STM model at the Thales Alenia Space's premises in Cannes, France.

ESA Euclid Multimedia Gallery

September 6th, 2019

ESA's Euclid Multimedia Gallery collects milestone images in the development of the Euclid Mission. The latest images show the integrated Structural and Thermal Model (STM) of the Euclid satellite at the Thales Alenia Space premises in Cannes, France.

NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy Mission

July 29th, 2019

A major step towards the completion of the scientific payload on ESA's Euclid space mission has been completed, following the delivery of the detectors for the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument by NASA.

Euclid Dark Energy Telescope Selects Deep Fields

June 12th, 2019

Three extremely dark patches of the sky have been selected for in-depth observations by the European Space Agency's Euclid mission. Researchers will probe these "Euclid Deep Fields" for faint and distant objects in the universe.

Spitzer awards time to observe Euclid Deep Field South

March 15th, 2019

Prof. Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota) has been awarded Spitzer time to observe Euclid Deep Field South. Her team will conduct a 687hr survey of the definitive southern continuous viewing zone deep field of the 2020s using IRAC, the primary instrument on Spitzer. This survey will secure legacy data that will allow a broad range of scie...

ENSCI establishes Help Center

January 3rd, 2019

Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI) has established the ENSCI Help Center to assist U.S. scientists in preparing to work with Euclid data.

ENSCI will be at AAS meeting in January 2019

January 3rd, 2019

Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) representatives will be at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA, on 6-10 January 2019.

Euclid Mission Now Ready for Final Assembly

December 18th, 2018

ESA's Euclid mission has passed its critical design review, marking the successful completion of a major phase in the progress of the project. The review verified that the overall mission architecture and detailed design of all its elements is complete, ensuring that it will be able to perform the unprecedented galaxy survey needed to tackle the...

ESA releases new artist views of Euclid

January 25th, 2018

ESA has released new artist views of Euclid, the space mission to probe the dark Universe. These new images contain details that reflect the progress in the mission implementation.

Keck awards 10 nights for Euclid calibration

December 6th, 2017

Dr. Dan Masters (JPL) is the PI of a successful Keck proposal for a 2-semester, 10 night Key Strategic Mission Support program to complete the Euclid calibration in support of both the NASA PCOS and COS science goals. A primary objective of both Euclid and WFIRST is to provide a 3D map of the distribution of matter across a significant fraction ...

Over Eighty U.S. Scientists and Engineers Have Joined the Euclid Consortium

October 11th, 2017

Euclid is an ESA space mission with NASA participation to probe the nature of the dark Universe, scheduled for launch in 2020. To date, 83 US scientist and engineers have become members of the Euclid Consortium.

Scientists of the Euclid Consortium announce the release of the largest simulated galaxy catalogue ever built

July 31st, 2017

A key ingredient in order to prepare the scientific exploitation of the Euclid dataset is the development of synthetic observations of the real survey: a cosmological simulation that matches the expected volume and complexity of the real data. In a massive coordinated effort, a team of scientists of the Euclid project have worked together over t...

Dan Masters won the STAR prize for the biggest impact by a postdoc in the Euclid consortium

June 16th, 2017

Daniel works on developing techniques to measure distances to the more than a billion galaxies that will be imaged by Euclid, an ESA-led space mission focused on understanding the nature of dark energy. The method he developed uses an advanced machine learning technique to map the true distribution of galaxy colors. These colors can then be rela...

NASA Delivers Detectors for ESA's Euclid Spacecraft

May 9th, 2017

Three detector systems for the Euclid mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), have been delivered to Europe for the spacecraft's near-infrared instrument. The detector systems are key components of NASA's contribution to this upcoming mission to study some of the biggest questions about the universe, including those related to the propertie...

Euclid Photometric Calibration

April 14th, 2017

To understand all aspects of the photometric calibration of the Euclid mission, the Euclid calibration working group held a three day workshop at ESAC (Madrid) on 20-22 September 2016. The informative talks presented at this workshop are now publicly available.

ENSCI will be at the IPAC Booth at the 229th AAS meeting in January 2017

December 12th, 2016

ENSCI will be at the IPAC Booth at the 229th AAS meeting on January 3-7, 2017, in Grapevine, Texas.

The Euclid/WFIRST Spitzer Legacy Survey Program

October 13th, 2016

The Euclid/WFIRST Spitzer Legacy Survey proposal has been selected for observations in Spitzer GO Cycle 13. The PI is Dr. Peter Capak from IPAC, Caltech, leading an international team of 51 Co-Is. This ambitious program has been awarded 5286 hours of Spitzer Legacy Science Time, the most time awarded in this cycle, and a substantial fraction of ...

ENSCI Releases Estimator for Astrophysical Background at L2

September 29th, 2016

The Euclid NASA Science Center (ENSCI) has released an Estimator for Astrophysical Background at L2. This provides an important tool to Euclid scientists for survey optimization.

BBC Documentary "The Mystery of Dark Energy"

April 7th, 2016

BBC recently released Horizon's new episode, "The Mystery of Dark Energy". Some of the footage from this episode was shot during the Euclid Consortium meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland in June 2015.

How Does a NASA Scientist End Up Working on an ESA Mission?

March 1st, 2016

I work for NASA, and my salary comes from NASA through Caltech. One of my primary jobs is working on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid mission, which will launch on a six-year mission to study dark matter and dark energy in 2020. So, how does a NASA scientist end up playing a leading role in an ESA mission? The seeds of my involvement go back more than 15 years.

Euclid-US Teams

February 18th, 2016

Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) has created webpages for all three NASA Euclid Science Investigation Teams, and gathered the recent Euclid-relevant publications from all three teams into a single archive.
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