Euclid Consortium on Nostr: #ESAEuclid has successfully completed its #commissioning. A collaborative effort of ...

#ESAEuclid has successfully completed its #commissioning. A collaborative effort of #ESA, the npub1e0v65awjnph2lk4nuhzqhe9fgh3r5p6k7zchktq5nlkez0rlljrqyw42r4 (npub1e0v…42r4), and industry partners established communication 📡, turned on and checked both instruments, focussed the #telescope 🔭, and tested spacecraft pointing 🛰️.

This is now complete, and the teams have moved on to "performance verification", observing science-like sequences and calibration images.

Read more at ESA:

👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Follow_Euclid_s_first_months_in_space

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