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03.03.2015 – MAQRO not in the shortlist for the M4 mission

We 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 M3 proposal, we got endorsement from several European national agencies, and we made a huge step towards defining a technically feasible mission design. All these efforts will provide a sound foundation for our future efforts towards realizing a fundamental science mission to test the foundations of quantum physics in space.

24.02.2015 – BBC interview with James Bateman (University of Southampton)

James 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.

15.1.2015 – MAQRO M4 Proposal submitted to ESA

After receiving the Letters of Endorsement from Austria, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we successfully submitted the updated version of the MAQRO mission proposal to in response to the ESA call for a medium-sized mission opportunity with a launch in 2025.

15.9.2014 – Letter of Intent for MAQRO mission proposal submitted to ESA

In this letter, we signaled to ESA that we would submit the MAQRO mission proposal in response to their call for a medium-sized mission opportunity in the Cosmic Vision framework.