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    MarcoPolo-R: proposal to ESA in response to call for medium-size missions

    Publication date: 03 December 2010

    Authors: MarcoPolo-R proposing team

    Page: 1-41
    Year: 2010

    Copyright: ESA

    MarcoPolo-R is a sample return mission to a primitive Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA).

    The MarcoPolo-R mission proposal was submitted in 2010 to ESA in response to the Call for medium-size (M-class) missions in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan with a launch opportunity in the period 2020-22.

    In February 2011 MarcoPolo-R was one of four missions recommended by the ESA advisory structure and selected for an assessment study.

    The mission proposal can be accessed through the publication link below.

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    Last Update: 16 March 2013

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