Enduring Quests and Daring Visions

Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs released in late 2013.[1] It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions.[1] Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets.[2] To go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back farther in time.[2]

A full-scale model of the JWST in Texas, USA

Examples of discussed missions include:[3]

  • Astro-H (Hitomi)
  • Black Hole Mapper
  • CMB Polarization Surveyor
  • Cosmic Dawn
  • Euclid
  • ExoEarth Mapper
  • Gaia
  • Gravitational Wave Surveyor/Mapper
  • Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx)
  • Far-Infrared Surveyor (later renamed the Origins Space Telescope)
  • JEM-EUSO
  • James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
  • Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)
  • Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
  • WFIRST-AFTA
  • X-Ray Surveyor (later renamed the Lynx X-ray Observatory)


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