Jeff Foust reports in a 19 October article at space.com that problems
found with infrared detectors during testing are likely to delay the
ESA Euclid space telescope mission by up to a year. The spacecraft
had been originally scheduled to launch in 2020.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Foust, space.com
The spacecraft features a 1.2-meter telescope with visible and near-infrared instruments to study dark energy and dark matter ....
Euclid will operate at the Earth-sun L-2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, that is used by other infrared astronomy missions.
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Article here :-
http://spacenews.com/flaws-in-nasa-p...onomy-mission/