COSMIC VISION M4 CANDIDATE MISSIONS PRESENTATION EVENT

ANNOUNCEMENT AND REGISTRATION

 

Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan


M4 candidate missions presentation



 

Monday, 3 July 2017

 

Institut Océanographique de Paris


195 rue Saint-Jacques


75005 Paris, France

 

Meeting home page: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/M4missions2017

 

Following a call in August 2014, ESA selected in June 2015 three candidates for the “M4” medium-class mission, for a launch opportunity in 2025 (ARIEL, THOR and XIPE).

The three missions have been studied as candidates for the M4 launch opportunity.

The mission concepts have completed their Assessment Phase study activities, and a recommendation about which concept should be carried forward for Definition Phase activities will be issued under the responsibility of the Advisory Structure to the ESA Science Programme. The present plan is to submit to the Science Programme Committee the proposal to select one mission in November 2017.

In view of this selection, the three M4 mission concepts ARIEL, THOR, and XIPE will be presented to the scientific community on 3 July 2017, at the Institut Océanographique de Paris (195 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris, France). The meeting is foreseen to start at 13:00 and will end at 18:00 (see the Programme available at the links in the right-hand menu).

All interested parties (scientific community, industry, national funding agencies, etc.) are invited to attend this event. Practical details and logistic information are available at the links in the right-hand menu.

The Assessment Study Reports (also known as the Yellow Books) for the three candidates (ARIEL, THOR and XIPE) are available to download - see the right-hand menu.

 

Registration

Please note that registration to attend the event is mandatory due to the limited capacity of the venue, and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. You are invited to register for this event as soon as possible, and by 10 June 2017 at the latest.

 

Registration must be performed through this on-line registration form (opens in new window):

 

Registration form

 

 

Contacts

Olga Garcés

Director's Office

Directorate of Science

European Space Agency

Email: Olga.Garcesesa.int

 

Luigi Colangeli

Head of the Science Coordination Office (SCI-CS)

Directorate of Science

European Space Agency

Email: Luigi.Colangeliesa.int