Quote from: Alpha_Centauri on 12/24/2017 02:43 pmA little late in updating this as it slipped my mind but I have the full list of 13 semi-finalists in the M5 competition. Turns out the previous rumours were slightly wrong, ENVISION did in fact make it and no Jupiter mission got throughAlpha_Centauri, can you tell me where this is posted?
A little late in updating this as it slipped my mind but I have the full list of 13 semi-finalists in the M5 competition. Turns out the previous rumours were slightly wrong, ENVISION did in fact make it and no Jupiter mission got through
Posted? Well confusingly there are a few different lists doing the rounds on the internet, but as I understand it this is an example of the correct one from a CNES presentation to the French Astrophysics and Astronomy Society in July (page 35);http://sf2a.eu/semaine-sf2a/2017/presentations/S00/CNES_2017.pdf
Quote from: Alpha_Centauri on 12/24/2017 02:43 pmA little late in updating this as it slipped my mind but I have the full list of 13 semi-finalists in the M5 competition. Turns out the previous rumours were slightly wrong, ENVISION did in fact make it and no Jupiter mission got through;HEAVY METAL: Exploring a magnetized metallic asteroidHERA: Saturn Entry Probe MissionJANUS. Exploring the asymmetric magnetosphereDEPHINE: Deimos and Phobos Interior ExplorerSELMA: Surface, Environment and Lunar Magnetic AnomaliesENVISION: Understanding why our most Earth neighbor is so differente-ASTROGAM: At the hearth of the extreme UniverseESCAPE: European SpaceCraft for the study of Atmospheric Particle EscapeGALILEO Galilei (GG): a mission to test the founding pillar of General Relativity to 10-17CASTALIA: A mission to a Main Belt CometTHESEUS: Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe SurveyorSPICA: Unveiling the obscured UniverseALFVEN: A mission to study particle acceleration in strongly magnetized plasmasDownselect to 3 finalists is I understand in February 2018 after a 6-month delay due to the funding issues at the last ministerial conference. There were complications with the M4 final selection which was due in November that has also caused delay, so I would expect that result any time now.Thank you. Been wondering when something would happen with this call. Surprising number of solar system missions (which tend to be more complex than astronomy or astrophysics missions). I think it would be hard for Heavy Metal or Dephine to be selected given the Psyche and MMX missions. The proposed M5 missions would do additional science compared to the approved missions, but I doubt it would be enough more to make either selectable.
A little late in updating this as it slipped my mind but I have the full list of 13 semi-finalists in the M5 competition. Turns out the previous rumours were slightly wrong, ENVISION did in fact make it and no Jupiter mission got through;HEAVY METAL: Exploring a magnetized metallic asteroidHERA: Saturn Entry Probe MissionJANUS. Exploring the asymmetric magnetosphereDEPHINE: Deimos and Phobos Interior ExplorerSELMA: Surface, Environment and Lunar Magnetic AnomaliesENVISION: Understanding why our most Earth neighbor is so differente-ASTROGAM: At the hearth of the extreme UniverseESCAPE: European SpaceCraft for the study of Atmospheric Particle EscapeGALILEO Galilei (GG): a mission to test the founding pillar of General Relativity to 10-17CASTALIA: A mission to a Main Belt CometTHESEUS: Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe SurveyorSPICA: Unveiling the obscured UniverseALFVEN: A mission to study particle acceleration in strongly magnetized plasmasDownselect to 3 finalists is I understand in February 2018 after a 6-month delay due to the funding issues at the last ministerial conference. There were complications with the M4 final selection which was due in November that has also caused delay, so I would expect that result any time now.
Totally agree with your point about Heavy Metal & Delphine as they should be easy eliminations being as they are already been done by other missions.
Quote from: Star One on 12/24/2017 10:20 pmTotally agree with your point about Heavy Metal & Delphine as they should be easy eliminations being as they are already been done by other missions.I'm actually curious about the timing of ESA's selection of these missions. From their website, it appears it would have occurred after NASA's selection of the Psyche mission and JAXA's approval of the MMX mission.
SPICA no longer candidate for ESA's M5 mission selectionThe European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS/JAXA) have announced their decision to no longer consider the infrared space observatory, SPICA, as a candidate for the upcoming selection as ESA's 5th medium-class mission in its Cosmic Vision Programme (M5).
You wait ages for a mission to Venus and then three come along at once.The European Space Agency has just selected a probe called Envision to go study the second planet from the Sun.