Horizon 2000
ESA's long-term space-science plan, prepared in 1984, organized a portfolio whose missions required development and operations extending well beyond the year in its name. It included Rosetta and Philae, Herschel, Planck, XMM-Newton, and Integral. Rosetta illustrates that lifecycle: approved in 1993 and launched in 2004, it reached its comet in 2014 and completed operations in 2016. Horizon 2000 was followed by Horizon 2000 Plus and the Cosmic Vision planning cycle.
Identity
- Aliases
- Horizon 2000
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Horizon 2000
- Status
- completed
- Types
- explorationscience
Details
- Description
- ESA's long-term space-science plan, prepared in 1984, organized a portfolio whose missions required development and operations extending well beyond the year in its name. It included Rosetta and Philae, Herschel, Planck, XMM-Newton, and Integral. Rosetta illustrates that lifecycle: approved in 1993 and launched in 2004, it reached its comet in 2014 and completed operations in 2016. Horizon 2000 was followed by Horizon 2000 Plus and the Cosmic Vision planning cycle.
- Leads
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 1984
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 07:58:58 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 17, 2026 at 14:03:12 UTC