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You can also find information about the Arago mission on the Arago website.
Latest news:
June 2016: The Arago LoI for M5 has been submitted to ESA.
April 2016: An Arago Payload consortium meeting was held on April 19-20 at CNES in Paris.
January 2016: The next Arago Payload consortium meeting will be held on April 19-20 at CNES in Paris.
December 2015: An Arago Payload consortium meeting was held on December 1-2 at CNES in Paris.
November 2015: ESA meeting with PIs on November 26 and individual interviews on November 27. M5 call expected in Spring 2016 with deadline expected in Summer 2016.
November 2015: TAS and ADS started industrial studies for Arago’s platform and telescope.
September 2015: A Statement of Interest regarding ESA’s M5 call has been submitted for Arago.
June 2015: ESA selected Ariel, Thor and Xipe as candidates for M4.
March 2015: CNES started a Phase 0 study for Arago, in preparation for M5.
January 2015: The Arago proposal has been submitted to ESA as an answer to its M4 call.
November 2014: The Arago Payload consortium met on November 21 in Paris to converge on the final Work Breakdown Structure and M4 proposal content.
November 2014: CNES performs an audit of Arago on November 19-20.
October 2014: NASA provides a letter to the Arago team stating that Arago’s objectives are aligned with NASA’s Science Plan.
September 2014: The UVMag consortium submitted a Letter of Intent to ESA for a M-size mission called Arago.
August 2014: ESA issued the M4 call: LoI deadline on September 16, 2014, ESA meeting with PIs on September 26, 2014, full proposal deadline on January 15, 2015, ESA selection in March 2015.
July 2014: ESA issued a preliminary announcement for its M4 call: LoI expected on mid-September 2014 and full proposal mid-January 2015.
May 2014: The first UVMag Science consortium meeting took place in Paris on May 19-20.
May 2014: Martin Barstow from Leicester (UK) becomes UVMag’s instrument scientist.
May 2014: The UVMag core team visited the MPS to discuss their contribution to UVMag.
March 2014: Jean-Michel Reess from LESIA (Paris Observatory) becomes UVMag’s project manager. Pernelle Bernardi (LESIA) is UVMag’s system engineer.
March 2014: CNES recommends a Phase 0 study for UVMag at its quaternal prospective meeting, to prepare for an ESA M-size mission proposal, and lists UVMag among its priorities for future astrophysical missions.
February 2014: The UVMag science consortium will meet in Paris on May 19 and 20.
January 2014: The UVMag R&D team will visit CNES on February 18 for a progress review.
January 2014: The UVMag payload consortium met in Paris. The presentations are available to the consortium in the Intranet section of this website.
November 2013: The UVMag payload consortium will meet in Paris on January 14, 2014.
November 2013: Martin Pertenaïs has started a PhD dedicated to the optical design of the UVMag spectropolarimeter.
May 2013: A proposal for a large UV and Optical mission, EUVO, has been submitted to ESA for its call for L2/L3 scientific themes. See the NUVA website.
March 2013: UVMag participates in a white paper for the ESA call for L2/L3 scientific themes, which proposes a Large UV and Visible Observatory.
January 2013: UVMag has been submitted to CNES at its call for new ideas for future space missions.
September 2012: The French space agency CNES has allocated a 3-year R&D study for UVMag.