Xavier Dupac
@xdupac
Astrophysicist at European Space Agency - Euclid mission. Lyric baritone, traveller.
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The #EUCLID telescope is taking shape in our cleanroom in Toulouse 🇫🇷. Our engineers just integrated MullardSpaceScience ‘VIS’ visible imaging instrument on the payload module. The European Space Agency space telescope will image billions of galaxies out to a distance of 10 billion light years.
It was for the teams a very demanding period, all teams are very relieved that ESA's Euclid mission has successfully passed another milestone towards launch in 2022 !
Just like humans, spacecraft can be energised by the Sun, but also damaged by its light and heat ☀️🛰️ Thales Alenia Space engineers attached a combined solar array and sunshield to ESA's Euclid mission last week, taking the mission one step closer to completion 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=N7S-Yn…
Few hours ago the ESA Council made the decision about the ESA's Euclid mission launcher: ESA’s proposal to use the SpaceX vehicle Falcon9 was approved for a launch in 2023🚀.
Our ESA's Euclid mission mission is undergoing the final test before launch in July 2023 🚀 Here it is standing in a special room in the Thales Alenia Space test facilities in Cannes, France, where it successfully underwent electromagnetic compatibility testing ✅ esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
See some superb images of ESA's Euclid mission at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes in February by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA, France) on : 👉cfht.hawaii.edu/~jcc/EuclidTha… High resolution images can be downloaded.