Tuesday, 1st December 2009 Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan M-class missions presentation Institut Océanographique 195 rue Saint-Jacques F-75005 Paris

The six M-class Missions

http://sci.esa.int/2009presentation

Six medium ("M") mission concepts, original proposed in response to the Call for Missions issued in 2007 for the first slice of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan for the ESA Science Programme, are currently being studied as candidates for a launch in 2017 and 2018 (the so-called "M1" and "M2" launch slots). Details of the six mission concepts (Cross Scale, Euclid, Marco Polo, Plato, Solar Orbiter, SPICA) are available at http://sci.esa.int/cosmicvision.

The ongoing Assessment Phase activities will be completed in the course of 2009, and in January 2010 the Advisory Structure to the Science Programme of ESA will be asked to recommend which of the currently studied M mission concepts should be carried forward into Definition Phase, in support of a decision by the Science Programme Committee in February 2010.

As a first step in this process, the six M mission concepts will be presented to the Scientific Community as well as to the Advisory Structure to the Science Programme on December 1, 2009, at the Institut Océanographique de Paris (195 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris). The meeting is foreseen to start at 09h00 and will end at 19h30.

All interested parties (scientific community, industry, national funding agencies, and international partners) are invited to attend this event. Due to the limited capacity of the venue, registration is however mandatory, and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. You are invited to register for this event as soon as possible, and by 25 September 2009 at the latest.

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Contact
Valerie Lecuraud
ESA headquarters, Paris
email: Valerie.Lecuraudesa.int

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