ESA L2 and L3 large mission Options

[Paolo]

ESA has published a series of "white paper" studies on its next two large missions (L2 and L3), to be launched during the 2020s. pick your favorite!
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/do...fobjectid=52029

I doubt a planetary mission will be selected for either mission, since L1 is the JUICE Jupiter-Ganymede orbiter, but you never know...

[Phil Stooke]

That's right, Ted! Spare a thought for us poor old guys who are already in our 50s and 60s... of course, the flip side of that is having seen people walk on the Moon on live TV. I guess you can't have everything.

Phil

[tedstryk]

True, but for my "history" with space, Voyager at Neptune is a watershed. When, as a kid, I first took interest in space at the beginning of 1989, the major NASA mission that was active was Voyager approaching Neptune (along with Phobos-2 approaching and then at Mars, but we've seen lots of Mars before and since - Voyager at Neptune was the blockbuster). In many ways Voyager at Neptune, where I watched the pictures come down live until my parents made me go to bed (telling me I'd thank them someday - nope) is my Apollo 11.