Briefing meeting in advance of next Call for Medium and Fast missions
and of an exploratory call for mini-F proposals
in the ESA Science Programme

11 December 2024, starting at 14:00 CET

Programme and Registration

 

Updated 11 December 2024 with the addition of the recording of the meeting presentations.

In order to maintain diversity, flexibility, and proper cadence of missions in the Science Programme, the Director of Science plans to issue, in March 2025, a Call soliciting the scientific community in ESA's Member States for proposals for both a Medium-class mission opportunity (M8; to be launched around 2041) and a Fast-class mission opportunity (F3; to be launched around 2034). At the same time, an exploratory Call will also be issued soliciting proposals for a new type of agile mission, referred to as mini-Fast missions.

An online briefing to prospective proposers was held on 11 December 2024, starting at 14:00 CET, to provide any necessary clarification on the scope of the proposals, the expected information, possible international cooperation schemes, possible payload provision schemes, etc.

Programme

Moderators: Lisa Lacroix, Ricarda Leske

Topic Time slot Speaker

Introduction

  14:00 - 14:15  L. Colangeli

Context, clarifications, and expectations for:

  14:15 - 15:00  F. Safa

Scientific Assessment

 15:00 - 15:15  P. McNamara

Questions & Answers

 15:15 - 17:00 16:15  

 

Recording of briefing meeting

The recording of the presentations can be downloaded here (note that this is a large file in mp4 format.)

Privacy Notice

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Contact

The meeting organisers can be contacted via mission-calls-2025@cosmos.esa.int

 

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