ESA Discovery & Preparation Programme
The European Space Agency's cross-cutting future-preparation programme, managing hundreds of parallel mission-feasibility studies, early technology projects, blue-sky research, co-sponsored academic work, strategic analyses, and methodology experiments that inform new missions, projects, and optional programmes.
Identity
- Aliases
- Discovery & Preparation ProgrammeDiscovery and Preparation ProgrammeDiscovery & Preparation
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- ESA Discovery & Preparation Programme
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- The European Space Agency's cross-cutting future-preparation programme, managing hundreds of parallel mission-feasibility studies, early technology projects, blue-sky research, co-sponsored academic work, strategic analyses, and methodology experiments that inform new missions, projects, and optional programmes.
- Start Date
- 1975
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 11:58:19 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 11:58:19 UTC
Other
- Leads
- Official Urls
- https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/About_ushttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/About_Discovery_Preparationhttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/ESA_s_Discovery_Preparation_elements_in_focushttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/50_years_of_ESA/History_ESA_Convention_1975
- Participants
- -
- Types
- scienceresearchdevelopment