Euclid, a European Space Agency mission with contributions from NASA, is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark universe. It will realize a 3D-map of the universe by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will be launched to an observing orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point.

Since 2015, SPACEBEL has been in charge of the development of the Euclid control and data management unit application software, which controls the spacecraft and all its subsystems. We also cover the associated software validation facilities and services. In February 2023, we delivered to Thales Alenia Space Italy, Euclid’s prime contractor, the final version of our software.

The telescope will be launched from the Space launch complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) on July 1st 2023 at 5:11 PM CEST. A back-up launch date is foreseen on July 2nd 2023.

The SPACEBEL Euclid team will assist the operations from Darmstadt (Germany and Liège, Belgium.

Watch the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its payload, ESA's dark universe explorer: