ESA’s Euclid telescope will explore the dark universe from an orbit 1m miles beyond Earth

Sun

93m miles

Earth

Moon

1m miles

Euclid will explore from a

halo-like orbit around Lagrange point two,

an equilibrium point of the sun-Earth system

that follows Earth around the sun

Sunshield and

photovoltaic array

Telescope

High-gain

antenna

Low-gain

antenna

Thrusters

Star trackers

Sunshield and

photovoltaic array

Telescope

Sun

High-gain

antenna

93m miles

Earth

Moon

1m miles

Euclid will explore from a

halo-like orbit around Lagrange point two,

an equilibrium point of the sun-Earth system

that follows Earth around the sun

Low-gain

antenna

Thrusters

Star trackers