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15 December 2020 Status of the performance of the Euclid spacecraft
Luis M. Gaspar Venancio, Lionel Carminati, Jérôme Amiaux, Luciana Bonino, Giuseppe Racca, Roland Vavrek, René Laureijs, Alex Short, Tobias Boenke, Paolo Strada
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Abstract
The Euclid mission, of which the spacecraft is the essential space segment, is being developed to undertake the challenges of mapping the dark energy and dark matter distribution in the Universe. As the launch date is approaching (2nd half of 2022), the development of the spacecraft has successfully passed critical milestones with the manufacturing and integration of the telescope, instruments and service module. Each sub-element of the spacecraft has been qualified and their performance assessed. The assembly of the complete payload and spacecraft is currently on-going. The integrated optical performance end to end of the payload module is currently being assessed based on the as-built knowledge of the parts of the telescope and instruments.
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Luis M. Gaspar Venancio, Lionel Carminati, Jérôme Amiaux, Luciana Bonino, Giuseppe Racca, Roland Vavrek, René Laureijs, Alex Short, Tobias Boenke, and Paolo Strada "Status of the performance of the Euclid spacecraft", Proc. SPIE 11443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 114430G (15 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562490
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KEYWORDS
Space operations

Galactic astronomy

Baryon acoustic oscillations

Image quality

Image segmentation

Acoustics

Distortion

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