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

     

    4 December 2024

    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 will be 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.

    Prospective proposers should register for the online briefing in advance, via the registration form below.

     

    Provisional 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  

     

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    Contact

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

     

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