(by Rainer Kaltenbaek, 2016)
The updated form of the MAQRO mission proposal, which we submitted last year in response to the “M4” Cosmic Vision call of ESA, finally was published today as a review in EPJ Quantum Technology.
The image was designed and rendered using Blender for the start of the COST action QTSpace, ...
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LISA Pathfinder was successfully launched yesterday! Apart from that simply being great news as being an important step towards LISA and towards a better understanding of the gravitational universe, for MAQRO this is especially important because it solidifies the important technological heritage of MAQRO from LISA Pathfinder. For example, we also plan to use a VEGA launcher, and we intend to use a similar propulsion module to transport MAQRO to L1 after the start. This transfer is no mean feat ...
Read more → ShareOn July 20th, 2015, ESA announced plans for issuing an M5 call in the near future. Of course, we plan to submit our MAQRO proposal once again. As described in the announcement, we should state our interest by September 20th, 2015. This is not necessary but it will show ESA what they can expect in terms of proposals submitted. The tentative schedule is: call announced in December 2015, deadline for submission: April 2016.
Read more → ShareWe adapted the MAQRO M4 proposal to paper form for future publication and uploaded it to the arXiv.
Read more → ShareWe received the news from ESA today that MAQRO has not been selected for the shortlist of candidate mission proposals that will be investigated in more detail. This is not completely unexpected given the amount of technological development we still have to perform and the tight time frame of ESA for the M4 mission.
Nevertheless, we have made impressive progress in the course of preparing the M4 mission proposal – we addressed many technical issues that were yet unresolved in our ...
Read more → ShareJames Bateman from the Ulbricht group at the University of Southampton gave an interview for BBC aboutdark matter and how certai types of dark patter could possibly be detected by MAQRO. Link to Interview (verlinken), where the featured part starts at 2:17:30 onwards.
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