Liam McSherry IEng MIET

Abstract:

In 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) asked the scientific community for proposals for a new ‘Fast class’ of missions: faster, lower cost, and allowing more experimentation than flagship programs. The selected mission would be a payload of opportunity sharing a launch with the medium class ARIEL exoplanet telescope to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point, around1.5m kilometers from the Earth.