ESA 'Cosmic Vision' Future Planning Options

[cndwrld]

ESA Cosmic Vision Request for Proposals

Briefing Meeting Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals
12 Apr 2007

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.

The presentations of the briefing meeting are available in PDF format at:

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=40902



This Call for proposals covers the first planning cycle of the new Cosmic Vision 2015-2025.

The Call will lead to the selection of one-medium sized mission (Class M mission) to enter the implementation phase in 2012, with a launch foreseen in the mid-2017 time-frame.

The Call also invites proposals for concepts of more ambitious missions of the flagship category (Class L mission concepts) that will require an extended preparation.

More info on Cosmic Vision can be found at:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=40794

[bobik]

Five M7 proposals have been selected for further study. Besides the already publicly known HAYDN, M-MATISSE, Plasma Observatory, THESEUS proposals, the so far perfectly camouflaged CALICO, a proposal for an in-situ investigation of Ceres, remains as candidate for the M7 opportunity.

EDIT: "The proposal[s] will be further assessed during a phase 0 study in 2023. Out of the 5 competitors 2 or 3 missions will be selected for a phase A study by the end of 2023."
EDIT: A somewhat puzzling presentation slide dated 27 October 2022.

[vjkane]

Five M7 proposals have been selected for further study. Besides the already publicly known HAYDN, M-MATISSE, Plasma Observatory, THESEUS proposals, the so far perfectly camouflaged CALICO, a proposal for an in-situ investigation of Ceres, remains as candidate for the M7 opportunity.

Thanks for posting this. CALICO sounds particularly interesting to me. I suspect, though, that given that a planetary mission, EnVision, was selected in the last M call, ESA may seek balance in its program by selecting a mission representing a non-planetary discipline.