Future Projects
- Aurora Programme — a space exploration programme for manned and unmanned exploration of Mars and other planets in our solar system.
- Cosmic Vision — a programme of space science missions for 2015–2025.
- Cheops- a joint project between ESA and Switzerland to study the structure of exoplantes.
- EarthCARE - collaboration with JAXA to improve understanding of the cloud, radiative and aerosol processes that affect the Earth's climate
- Euclid — a planned space telescope for mapping the distribution of dark matter and characterizing properties of dark energy.
- FLPP — a study to evaluate potential future European launchers, reusable or expendable.
- IXV — the associated reentry demonstrator to FLPP.
- Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer — spacecraft to visit the Jovian system, focused in particular on studying three of Jupiter's moons; Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.
- LISA — a mission to detect and study gravitational waves (together with NASA).
- Mars Sample Return Mission — a Mars probe as part of the Aurora Programme.
- PLATO — a planned space telescope for detecting transiting exoplanets.
- Proba-3 — a mission involving 2 proba-like satellites to demonstrate formation flying.
- Solar Orbiter — an orbiter to examine the polar regions of the Sun, the project is currently in an assessment phase with a prospective launch in 2015.
Read more about this topic: List Of Projects Of The European Space Agency
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