Photo: Bill Ingalls · Public domain (US government)
Mission
Astrophysics · L2
European Space Agency telescope designed to explore the evolution of the dark Universe. It will make a 3D-map of the Universe (with time as the third dimension) by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky.
What it put in orbit
| Object | Type | Orbit | Globe |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUCLID 2023-092A | Payload | orbits the Sun–Earth L2 point | |
| FALCON 9 R/B 2023-092B | Rocket body | orbits the Sun |
COSPAR ID 2023-092 (data from GCAT, J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0). Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).