I think this thread should be renamed for clarity. It should be something like "ESA's M5 Space Science Mission Competition" or something. "M5" alone is pretty obscure.
This isn't about BMWs?
Quote from: as58 on 02/04/2017 02:29 pmThis isn't about BMWs?I'm such a Trekkie that the only thing that comes to mind is the M5 computer.
(For pursuit on another thread here, if any--Is the difference between Trekkie and Trekker still important (to the fan community)? Or is the distinction passé?)
Rumoured to have survived @esa M5 cut: AKON ALFVEN CASTALIA E-ASTROGAM ESCAPE GALILEO-GALILEI HEAVY-METAL HERA SELMA SPICA THEIA THESEUS
Also rumoured to have survived @esa M5 cut are a phobos/deimos mission and a Jupiter mission but not sure I have the names right.
Also a bit surprised by EnVision. As for sample return/MarcoPolo it looks like ESA is essentially saying it needs to be an L-class, or at least an optional program like the ESA/Roscosmos Phobos sample return concept.
Yeah wasn't asking for technical details, just any kind of official statement on what has passed selection. They posted which letters of intent had been received for S1; http://sci.esa.int/cosmic-vision/50265-received-letters-of-intent/.
edit: Related to M5: the proposal for EnVision, which apparently didn't make it through the pre-selection, appeared on arxiv in the latest posting. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09010
But some painful ESA suggestions of sacrifices to meet budgetary reality in the M class prog. M4&M5 selections pushed into future #EGU17
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.
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
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?