June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
Solar Orbiter is the first M-class mission in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision programme, due for launch in 2018. It builds on the agency’s hugely successful missions such as SOHO and Ulysses. ...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
...-class science mission. Due for launch in 2028, ARIEL will address one of the key themes of ESA’s Cosmic Vision; what are the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life? To achieve this, ARIEL will...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
‘Comet Interceptor’ has been selected as ESA’s new fast-class mission in its Cosmic Vision Programme. Comprising three spacecraft, it will be the first to visit a truly pristine comet or other interstellar object that is ...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... optical/near-infrared survey mission, which is part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme, is designed to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark...are the initial conditions which seed the formation of cosmic structure? What will be the future of the ...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... system works. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (‘JUICE’) mission addresses two of the overarching themes of ESA’s Cosmic Vision Programme: ‘What are the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life?’ and, ‘How does...
21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
... the green light, following its selection in February 2014. PLATO is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme and its aim is to find and study a large number of extrasolar planetary systems, in particular those that...
