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ECho Preliminary Requirements Review - Technical Report

ECho Preliminary Requirements Review - Technical Report Last Update: 23 September 2021

Summary

Summary EChO Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory Exploring the atmospheres of diverse worlds beyond our Solar System Themes What are the conditions for...

Payload

Payload An ESA study carried out by the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) at ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in July 2011 provided a reference design for the...

More about EChO

More about EChO This page provides a link to http://echo-spacemission.eu/

EChO Meeting - Florence Workshop 2012

Science Goals

Science Goals EChO would have provided an unprecedented view of the atmospheres of exoplanets transiting nearby stars. A mission dedicated to the differential technique of transit...

Candidate Missions

Candidate Missions This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=46510&fbodylongid=2152 ...

EChO External Final Presentation of the CDF study

EChO External Final Presentation of the CDF study Publication date: 23 July 2011 Authors: Puig, L. Year: 2011 Copyright: ESA Summary of the study performed at ESA's...

Call Document

Call Document This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49298

ECHO PDD

ECHO PDD This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49300

ECHO CDF study - External Final Presentation

ECHO CDF study - External Final Presentation This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49149 ...

EChO mission science proposal

EChO mission science proposal This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49305 ...

EChO SciRD

EChO SciRD Last Update: 1 September 2019

ECHO - External Final Presentation of the CDF study

ECHO - External Final Presentation of the CDF study Last Update: 1 September 2019

Status

Status EChO was proposed as an M-class candidate mission for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme in response to the Call for Proposals issued by ESA in October 2010. In February 2011...

Call Document

Call Document Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO reference optical design

EChO reference optical design Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO mission science proposal

EChO mission science proposal Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO SciRD

EChO SciRD This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49322

Spacecraft

Spacecraft The EChO spacecraft is planned to be launched on a Soyuz rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, into a direct transfer orbit to the second Lagrangian point, L2. The spacecraft...

ECHO Payload Definition Document

ECHO Payload Definition Document Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO reference optical design

EChO reference optical design This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49301 ...

ESA ITT for EChO assessment study

ESA ITT for EChO assessment study This page provides a link to http://emits.esa.int/emits/owa/emits_online.showao?typ1=5135&user=Anonymous ...

Call for declaration of Interest in Science Instrumentation - Cosmic Vision Mission: Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO)

This Call for declaration of Interest in Science Instrumentation (CISI) is open to the European science community for enabling assessment studies of the science instruments of the EChO mission....

ExoClimes Conference 2012 - The diversity of planetary atmospheres

ExoClimes Conference 2012

Mission Operations

Mission Operations Launch EChO is a candidate mission for the M3 launch opportunity, to be launched by 2024. EChO will be launched into a direct transfer orbit on a Soyuz-MT...

EChO Payload Definition Document

EChO Payload Definition Document Publication date: 15 September 2012 Authors: EChO Team Issue: 3 Year: 2012 Copyright: ESA Reference: SRE-PA/2011.039/ This document...

EChO Science Requirements Document

EChO Science Requirements Document Publication date: 13 December 2013 Authors: ECHO Science Study Team Issue: 3.2 Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference: SRE-PA/2011.037...

EChO Mission Proposal

EChO Mission Proposal Publication date: 03 December 2010 Authors: EChO proposing team Page: 1-41 Year: 2010 Copyright: ESA EChO is the Exoplanet Characterisation...

Workshop in Florence, January 31st, 2012

EChO Open Science Workshop

EChO Mission Requirements Document

EChO Mission Requirements Document Last Update: 1 September 2019

Q&A EChO

Q&A EChO These pages list answers to questions received in response to the Announcement of Opportunity (AO), released on 24 September 2012, for the provision of scientific payload...

Proposal information package - EChO

Proposal information package - EChO Last Update: 1 September 2019

Proposal information package - EChO (zip)

Proposal information package - EChO (zip) This page provides a link to /doc.cfm?fobjectid=50847

EChO Mission Requirements Document

EChO Mission Requirements Document Publication date: 12 December 2013 Authors: EChO Team Issue: 3.2 Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference: SRE-PA/2011.038/ EChO...

Original mission proposal - ECHO (pdf)

Original mission proposal - ECHO (pdf) This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=49305 ...

EChO

The Exoplanet Characterization Observatory (EChO) was a candidate mission for the M3 launch opportunity in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. The mission was designed to measure the chemical...

EChO documents: science tech notes

EChO documents: science tech notes Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO assessment study report (Yellow Book)

EChO assessment study report (Yellow Book) Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO Assessment Study Report (Yellow Book)

EChO Assessment Study Report (Yellow Book) Publication date: 16 December 2013 Page: 1-112 Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference: ESA/SRE(2013)2 This is the Assessment...

EChO Science Team technical notes

EChO Science Team technical notes Last Update: 1 September 2019

Documents in zip file of EChO science team technical notes

Documents in zip file of EChO science team technical notes Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO Phase A Assessment Study Documentation

There are a number of documents that are referred to in the EChO Phase A assessment study report that are not available in the published literature. These include high-level ESA study requirements...

EChO documents: samples and scheduling

EChO documents: samples and scheduling Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO documents: performance modelling, evaluation and calibration

EChO documents: performance modelling, evaluation and calibration Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO documents: instrument

EChO documents: instrument Last Update: 1 September 2019

List of EChO consortium documents

List of EChO consortium documents Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO Preliminary Requirements Review Technical Report

EChO Preliminary Requirements Review Technical Report Publication date: 25 November 2013 Authors: EChO PRR team Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference: ESA-ECHO-RP-0001,...

EChO radiometric model description

EChO radiometric model description Last Update: 1 September 2019

The EChO Design Reference Mission

The EChO Design Reference Mission Last Update: 1 September 2019

EChO Radiometric Model Description

EChO Radiometric Model Description Publication date: 17 December 2013 Authors: EChO Team Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference: SRE-PA/2011.040/, Issue 3, Revision 2 ...

EChO Design Reference Mission Document

EChO Design Reference Mission Document Publication date: 18 December 2013 Authors: The EChO Study Science Team Year: 2013 Copyright: ESA Reference:...