Announcement of Opportunity for the provision of scientific payload including SGS elements for the M3 mission candidates 24 September 2012 Proposals are solicited for the scientific payload, including Science Ground Segment (SGS) elements, of the M3 candidate missions EChO, LOFT, MarcoPolo-R, and STE-QUEST. The deadline for submission of proposals is 30 November 2012, 12:00 CET. Read more

LOFT Mission Requirements Document 11 February 2013 Reference: SRE-F/2012-076/RQ/MA; Issue: 3, Revision: 6. This document aims at providing a complete and comprehensive list of all high level mission requirements (including S/C and payload, launcher, ground segment and operations) necessary to achieve the science goals detailed in the LOFT Science Requirements Document (SRE-SA/LOFT/2011-001, Issue 1, Rev.7). Read more

LOFT Science Requirements Document 19 September 2012 Reference: SRE-SA/LOFT/2011-001; Issue: 1, Revision 6. This document records the scientific requirements for the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT). These are the reference requirements through which the Mission Requirements Document will be derived. Read more

LOFT Payload Definition Document 09 October 2012 Reference: SRE-PA/2011.088/; Issue:2, Revision: 4. This Payload Definition Document describes the consolidated instrument designs of the Large Area Detector (LAD) and the Wide Field Monitor (WFM) proposed for LOFT. The current issue (2.0) describes the status of the instruments at the time of the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the LOFT mission study phase. Read more

LOFT CDF study - External Final Presentation 07 October 2011 This is a summary of the study performed at ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) into the M-class mission Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT). Read more

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) 01 October 2012 This description of LOFT was published in Experimental Astronomy, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp 415-444, 2012. Read more