Media Programme

11:00 Security check-in / Doors open for journalists at ESA/ESOC

12:00 Pre-release interview opportunities at ESOC / Press Centre H 05

13.00 Start of Media Briefing briefing (on site, ESOC Press Centre)

Welcome at ESA, introduction to Euclid & ESA astronomy – by Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Science

Ambitions and challenges of Euclid, looking for Dark Matter and Dark Energy – by Giuseppe Racca, Euclid Project Manager

How to fly and to operate a space telescope safely at Lagrange Point L2 – by Simon Plum, Head of ESA Mission Operations Department

Delivering unique, full-colour images from the sky, members of the Euclid Science Consortium explain:

• Francis Bernardeau (Euclid Consortium deputy lead, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris CNRS / CEA Paris-Saclay, France)
• Knud Jahnke (core member, Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) photometry instrument scientist; Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany);
• Reiko Nakajima (researcher, Visible instrument (VIS), Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany)
• Jean-Charles Cuillandre (researcher, CEA/Saclay, France)
• Henk Hoekstra (EC cosmology coordinator; professor; University of Leiden, Netherlands)

Further senior experts will be on site, available for comments in many languages, from: ESA Science Directorate, ESA Operations Directorate, Paolo Musi of Thales Alenia Space (Prime Industry Contractor), Jason Rhodes of NASA JPL Science, etc.

13.45 Media interview opportunities

14:15 ESA Web TV broadcast (releasing HD images world-wide, providing expert comments, followed live in Press Centre, all experts are nearby)

15:00 Post-image release Q+A session with journalists onsite and via WebEx, moderated in hybrid mode

16:00 further interview opportunities at ESOC, Press Centre and including ESA Main Control Room area (in smaller groups)
Moderator: Bernhard von Weyhe, ESA Media Relations

17:00 End of Media briefing, all external guests leaving ESOC premises

Venue for Tuesday, 7 November 2023
European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC)
Robert-Bosch-Str. 5 - 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
More/how to get there: www.esa.int/esoc