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The Euclid spacecraft industry day was held on 15 January 2014 at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the Netherlands. ESA and the Prime Contractor for Euclid, Thales Alenia Space, presented the mission, including its procurement plan and related business opportunities. The book of presentations is available to download here.

Reference: ESA/SRE(2011)12

This report, the so-called Red Book, describes the outcome of the mission definition study (Phase A) for the Euclid mission.

The Euclid Mission Assessment Study is the industrial part of the Euclid assessment phase. This document summarizes the results of one such study performed between September 2008 and September 2009 by a team led by Thales Alenia Space (I) and including Thales Alenia Space (F), Kayser-Threde and Deimos Space.

The Euclid Mission Assessment Study is the industrial part of the Euclid assessment phase. The study has been performed by Astrium from September 2008 to September 2009 and is intended for space segment definition and programmatic evaluation. The prime responsibility is with Astrium GmbH (Friedrichshafen, Germany) with support from Astrium SAS (Toulouse, France) and Astrium Ltd (Stevenage, UK).

Reference: SRE-PA/2009/051

This technical review report for the Euclid candidate mission presents the outcome of ESA's internal review of this M-class candidate mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan. The review was concluded at the end of the mission assessment phase and carried out in frame of the down-selection to 3 or 4 M-class missions, which will proceed to the definition phase. The main goal of this internal review was to identify the mission's critical issues and associated risks at technical, programmatic and financial level.

This report presents an overview of the assessment study phase of the Euclid candidate M-class Cosmic Vision mission.

ESA's report to the 37th COSPAR meeting (13-20 July 2008) covers the missions of the Science Programme of ESA. This section contains the report on the Cosmic Vision candidate, Euclid.

This document provides the top level science requirements and the implied top level payload and mission requirements for Euclid, ESA's mission to map the dark Universe. Euclid will tightly constrain the dark energy equation of state and address key cosmological questions. This Issue 4 of the Science Requirements Document (SciRD) will be the basis for the Euclid mission and payload design during the Definition Phase.

[This is an abbreviated version of the original document abstract.]