ESA Science & Technology - Reviewing the Future - The 2006 External Review of the Science Programme

Publication date: 16 May 2007

Authors: Hennesy, L.

Journal: ESA Bulletin
Volume: 130
Page: 50-55
Year: 2007

Copyright: ESA

ESA's hugely successful Science Programme is facing flat budgets for the foreseeable future. The resources will be insufficient to satisfy all of the science community's wishes for new missions. As a result, the Science Programme Review Team (SPRT) was established to recommend ways for the Programme to meet its obligations to current and approved missions and to support new projects to the greatest extent possible.