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

MarcoPolo-R Mission Requirements Document 17 September 2012 Reference: SRE-PA/2011.076/MarcoPolo-R; Issue 3, Revision 2. The purpose of the MRD is to provide all high-level mission-level requirements (including spacecraft and payload, launcher, ground segment and operations) necessary to achieve the science goals detailed in MarcoPolo-R Science Requirements Document (MPR-RSSD-RS-001) for the MarcoPolo-R industrial system design studies running through 2012/2013. Read more

MarcoPolo-R Science Requirements Document 19 September 2012 Reference: MPR-RSSD-RS-001; Issue 1, Revision 5. This document describes the detailed scientific requirements for the MarcoPolo-R mission. Read more

MarcoPolo-R Payload Definition Document 04 November 2011 Reference: SRE-PA/2011.079; Issue 1. This document describes the proposed model payload of MarcoPolo-R, a sample return mission to a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), which is currently under assessment as a candidate mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan. Read more

MarcoPolo-R CDF study - External Final Presentation 08 November 2011 This is a summary of the study performed at ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) into the M-class candidate mission MarcoPolo-R. Read more

MarcoPolo-R: proposal to ESA in response to call for medium-size missions 03 December 2010 This MarcoPolo-R mission proposal was submitted in 2010 to ESA in response to the Call for medium-size (M-class) missions in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan with a launch opportunity in the period 2020-22. Read more