ESA Science & Technology - 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.