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Two spacecraft concepts: left, from EADS Astrium, and right, from Thales Alenia Space © ESA
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The project main steps
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The EUCLID project, is part of ESA's program Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 which is the current cycle of ESA's long-term planning for space science missions.
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Euclid mission objective is to map the geometry of the dark Universe. The mission will investigate the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of cosmic structures. It achieves this by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies and clusters of galaxies out to redshifts ~2, or equivalently to a look-back time of 10 billion years. It will therefore cover the entire period over which dark energy played a significant role in accelerating the expansion.
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Latest update 06/10/2011
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04/10/2011
ESA chose the two missions that will proceed further to implementation: Euclid and Solar Orbiter
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Mid-2011
ESA will chose up to two missions that will proceed further to implementation between Euclid, Solar Orbiter and EUCLID
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06/2010 – 06/2011
Definition Phase
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11/2008 – 12/2009
Study Assessment Phase
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11/2007 - 05/2008
Phase 0
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SCIENCE
