As the launch of the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission approaches, though we don’t know official launch date yet, the associated publicity machines are ramping up for the big occasion. The latest bit of merch is the Euclid Launch Kit.
Sadly, this does not allow you to build your own Falcon 9 launcher which is what I inferred from the name. What it is is an interactive PDF file that allows you to navigate around and learn things about the satellite, its orbit, its instruments and the science case. I think it’s pretty good. You can download it here. It’s over 100 MB though, so beware if you have a very slow connection.
To whet your appetite, here some graphics extracted from the launch kit. You can click on the tiles to make them bigger.
The two science images relate to weak gravitational lensing and baryon acoustic oscillations; for more details you can click on the relevant links.
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