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| NASA and ESA prioritize outer planet missions |
| At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and European Space Agency officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon Titan, and Enceladus. |
| Date: 18 Feb 2009 |
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| ESA internal study report on ESA contributions to Laplace/EJSM available |
| Following the release of the Laplace/EJSM mission Joint Summary Report describing the complete mission goals and giving an overview of its implementation, the teams are now also making available the detailed assessment reports of the mission elements. |
| Date: 12 Feb 2009 |
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| ESA internal study report on ESA contributions to Tandem/TSSM available |
| Following the release of the TandEM/TSSM mission Joint Summary Report describing the complete mission goals and giving an overview of its implementation, the teams are now also making available the detailed assessment reports of the mission elements. |
| Date: 12 Feb 2009 |
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| Outcome of the Ministerial Council as concerns the Science & Robotic Exploration Directorate |
| The Science Programme received a positive outcome from the recent Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, being granted an increase of 3.5% per annum for the period 2009-2013, giving it a budget over this period of 2.4 billion Euro at 2008 economic conditions. |
| Date: 28 Nov 2008 |
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Industry Space Day for the
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Technology Plan
Programme of Work 2008-2011 |
| European companies and institutes active in the space sector are invited to attend an Industry Space Day during which the programme of work for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Technology Plan will be presented. This Industry Space Day takes place on 21 November 2008 at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. |
| Date: 04 Nov 2008 |
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| Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Missions |
| ESA has issued a "Call for Declarations of Interest in Science Instrumentation" for the M-class Cosmic Vision mission, Euclid. Prospective Principal Investigators are invited to submit proposals outlining the composition of nationally funded consortia to carry out assessment level studies. Responses are due by 16:00 CEST on 11 July 2008.
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| Date: 23 May 2008 |
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| Call for Payload Study Consortia for Cosmic Vision M-class Missions: Cross-Scale, Marco Polo, Plato, and Euclid |
The deadline for this call has now passed.
On 5 May ESA issued a "Call for Declarations of Interest in Science Instrumentation" for the M-class Cosmic Vision mission studies Cross-Scale, Marco Polo, and Plato. A similar call for the M-class mission study Euclid followed on May 23. Prospective Principal Investigators are invited to submit proposals outlining the composition of nationally funded consortia to carry out assessment level studies.
Responses to the calls for Cross-Scale, Marco-Polo, and Plato are due by 16:00 CET on 30 June 2008. The responses to the call for Euclid are due by 16:00 CET on 11 July 2008. |
| Date: 05 May 2008 |
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| Europa - Jupiter International Science Workshop |
Frascati (Rome), Italy
April 21-22, 2008
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| Date: 28 Mar 2008 |
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| Marco Polo Workshop |
5 & 6 June 2008
Salle Miramar, La Croisette, Cannes, France
Croisette Beach Hotel
13, rue du Canada, 06400 Cannes, France |
| Date: 11 Mar 2008 |
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| TandEM (Titan and Enceladus Mission) Workshop |
17-19 March 2008
Chateau de Meudon
5 Place Janssen 92195 MEUDON Cedex, France
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| Date: 07 Feb 2008 |
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| XEUS - Physics of the Hot Evolving Universe |
Workshop, 5-6 March 2008, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
First Announcement
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| Date: 18 Jan 2008 |
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| Call for ESI Letters of Interest |
| Note - Deadline for submission has passed
Dear Colleague,
As you may recall, a proposal for ESA's participation in the Space Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) mission led by JAXA was recommended by the Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC) at its October 2007 meeting for an Assessment Study phase lasting until 2009.
The purpose of the present letter is to draw your attention to the opportunities for individuals and scientific institutions from ESA member states to participate in the Assessment Phase study activities of the Far-IR instrument foreseen on SPICA and solicit your interest in the project. |
| Date: 12 Dec 2007 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: and the candidate missions are... |
| The first steps of the next great phase of European space science have been taken! At its meeting held on 17-18 October 2007 in Paris, ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC) selected the new candidates for possible future scientific missions. |
| Date: 19 Oct 2007 |
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| First Selection of Candidate Missions for CV2015 Assessment Studies |
On 18 October 2007 after a meeting of the SSAC, the candidate missions have been selected for further assessment and consideration for launch in 2017/2018. These new candidate missions are joined by LISA, which was moved into the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan in May 2007. |
| Date: 18 Oct 2007 |
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| Announcement of Opportunity for the Solar Orbiter Payload |
| Note - Deadline for submission has passed
This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) solicits proposals of scientific investigations for the Solar Orbiter mission. Solar Orbiter is the next solar-heliospheric mission in the Science Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). It has recently been redefined as part of a joint ESA-NASA programme called Heliophysical Explorers that comprises ESA's Solar Orbiter and NASA's Solar Sentinels as a highly synergetic programme. The Solar Orbiter mission is devoted to solar and heliospheric physics. It will be carried out as an ESA-led mission open to the worldwide science community. |
| Date: 18 Oct 2007 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Proposals |
| The following table lists the mission concepts submitted in response to the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals. The missions were placed into one of three main fields of space science. |
| Date: 10 Jul 2007 |
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| Briefing Meeting Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals |
| More than 60 Letters Of Intent were received in response to ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals. Wednesday, 11 April 2007, a briefing meeting to the proposers took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The meeting comprised a number of presentations by ESA covering various aspects relative to the Call, followed by a session for questions from the proposers and for discussion. |
| Date: 12 Apr 2007 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals |
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| Date: 05 Mar 2007 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: The Universe |
| Theme 4 - How did the Universe originate and what is it made of?
Since antiquity, the Earth's inhabitants have observed the sky with curiosity and perspicacity, taking advantage of technological progress to help understand what the Universe is made of. Our present knowledge is the result of centuries of continuous cross-fertilisation between astronomical observations and theoretical constructions. |
| Date: 14 Feb 2006 |
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| Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: Fundamental Laws |
| Theme 3 - What are the fundamental physical laws of the Universe?
The most important challenge facing fundamental physics today is to understand the foundations of nature more deeply. Physicists know that the laws of physics as formulated at present do not apply at extremely high temperatures and energies, so that events in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang are not at all understood. Matter as we know it today did not then exist; protons and electrons formed later. |
| Date: 07 Feb 2006 |
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