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Dark Universe Mission Ready to Take Shape

December 17th, 2015

Euclid, a planned mission to investigate the profound cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, has passed its preliminary design review. This clears the way for construction to begin. Euclid is a European Space Agency mission with important contributions from NASA, including infrared detectors for one instrument and science and data anal...

Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science

November 16th, 2015

Due to the synergy between WFIRST and Euclid, this meeting is of great interest to the Euclid community. This international meeting, "Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science", to be held in Pasadena from 29 Feb. through 2 March 2016, will focus on the GO and GI components of the WFIRST mission.

Welcome to ENSCI

October 21st, 2014

NASA has established the Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) in order to support US-based investigations using Euclid data. ENSCI will participate in the Euclid Consortium’s Science Ground Segment, providing algorithm and software development, participating in data quality assurance, and performing data processing. In addition, ENSCI wi...

Thales Alenia Selected to be Euclid Prime Contractor

July 8th, 2013

The construction of Euclid to explore the dark Universe will be led by Italy's Thales Alenia Space, which will be the prime contractor for the mission. This selection kicks of the full industrial phase of the project, following the announcement last month that Astrium Toulouse will build the payload module -- the telescope and optical bench carr...

Caltech and JPL to Lead U.S. Science Teams for Dark Energy Mission

February 12th, 2013

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including two teams led by astronomers at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

January 24th, 2013

NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

ESA approves Euclid mission

June 20th, 2012

ESA's Science Program Committee has completed the two stage approval process process of selection and adoption of the Euclid mission.

NASA calls for Euclid Science Investigations

February 14th, 2012

NASA has announced an opportunity to propose for Science Investigations as Members of the Euclid Consortium and Euclid Science Team.

NRC endorses NASA participation in Euclid

February 3rd, 2012

The National Research Council's Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for US Participation in Euclid recommended that NASA should make a hardware contribution to the Euclid mission to enable US participation.

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