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| NASA joins ESA's 'dark Universe' mission |
| NASA has officially joined ESA's Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the mysterious natures of dark matter and dark energy. |
| Date: 24 Jan 2013 |
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| Dark Universe mission blueprint complete |
| ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - reached an important milestone today that will see it head towards full construction. |
| Date: 20 Jun 2012 |
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| Announcement of Opportunity for an Independent Legacy Scientist in the Euclid Science Team |
| The scientific community is invited to participate in the Euclid mission by responding to the present Announcement of Opportunity (AO). This AO solicits proposals for the appointment of the second Independent Legacy Scientist in the Euclid Science Team. The deadline for submission of proposals is 12 April 2012, 12:00 CET. |
| Date: 15 Feb 2012 |
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| Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions |
ESA PR 25 2011
The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious 'dark energy' motivate ESA's next two science missions. Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected today by ESA's Science Programme Committee for implementation, with launches planned for 2017 and 2019. |
| Date: 04 Oct 2011 |
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| Announcement of Opportunity for Euclid Payload and Science Ground Segment components |
| The Euclid Announcement of Opportunity (AO) solicits proposals from a single consortium to cover all nationally-funded contributions to the mission, namely: a) Elements of the payload, comprised of the two scientific instruments (VIS and NISP); b) Elements of the Science Ground Segment (SGS); and c) Consortium-appointed membership in the Euclid Science Team (EST). The deadline for submission of proposals is 29 October 2010, 12:00 CET. |
| Date: 22 Jul 2010 |
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| Announcement of Opportunity for Independent Legacy Scientists in the Euclid Science Team |
| The scientific community is invited to participate in the Euclid mission by responding to the present Announcement of Opportunity (AO), which solicits proposals for the appointment of two Independent Legacy Scientists (ILSs) in the Euclid Science Team (EST). The deadline for submission of proposals is 29 October 2010, 12:00 CET. |
| Date: 22 Jul 2010 |
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| ESA chooses three scientific missions for further study |
| Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017. |
| Date: 19 Feb 2010 |
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| Details of M-class Cosmic Vision candidates now available |
| A series of formal presentations on the 6 medium-class candidate missions in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan was made to a large gathering of Europe's scientific community on 1 December. This meeting marks the end of the assessment phase and the start of the down-selection process. The assessment study reports are now available. |
| Date: 02 Dec 2009 |
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| Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Missions: Cross-Scale, Marco Polo, Plato, and Euclid |
The deadline for this call has now passed.
On 5 May ESA issued a "Call for Declarations of Interest in Science Instrumentation" for the M-class Cosmic Vision mission studies Cross-Scale, Marco Polo, and Plato. A similar call for the M-class mission study Euclid followed on May 23. Prospective Principal Investigators are invited to submit proposals outlining the composition of nationally funded consortia to carry out assessment level studies.
Responses to the calls for Cross-Scale, Marco-Polo, and Plato are due by 16:00 CET on 30 June 2008. The responses to the call for Euclid are due by 16:00 CET on 11 July 2008. |
| Date: 05 May 2008 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: and the candidate missions are... |
| The first steps of the next great phase of European space science have been taken! At its meeting held on 17-18 October 2007 in Paris, ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC) selected the new candidates for possible future scientific missions. |
| Date: 19 Oct 2007 |
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