2013 STE-QUEST Workshop 01 February 2013 The 2013 STE-QUEST workshop will be held at ESTEC, The Netherlands, from 22-23 May 2013. The scope of the workshop is to present and discuss with the scientific community the STE-QUEST science case and the progress achieved in the frame of the mission and instruments studies. Read more

Announcement of Opportunity for the provision of scientific payload including SGS elements for the M3 mission candidates 24 September 2012 Proposals are solicited for the scientific payload, including Science Ground Segment (SGS) elements, of the M3 candidate missions EChO, LOFT, MarcoPolo-R, and STE-QUEST. The deadline for submission of proposals is 30 November 2012, 12:00 CET. Read more

STE-QUEST Mission Requirements Document 18 September 2012 Reference: SRE-PA/2011.074/RQ/MG; Issue 2, Revision 3. This document aims at providing a complete and comprehensive list of all high level mission requirements (including spacecraft and payload, launcher, ground segment and operations) necessary to achieve the science goals detailed in STE-QUEST Science Requirements Document (FPM-SA-Dc-00001). Read more

STE-QUEST Science Requirements Document 18 September 2012 Reference: FPM-SA-Dc-00001; Issue 1, Revision 4. This document presents the scientific objectives of the ESA mission STE-QUEST and provides the top level science requirements. Read more

STE-QUEST Payload Definition Document 22 June 2012 Reference: SRE-PA/2011-075/TN/PW; Issue 1, Revision 1. This document describes the Payload of STE-QUEST, a mission in the Fundamental Physics domain conceived to test to high accuracy the different aspects of the Einstein Equivalence Principle. This document derives directly from the STE-QUEST Science Requirements Document and STE-QUEST Mission Requirements Document. It also integrates elements included in the STE-QUEST proposal (and associated reference documents), the STE-QUEST CDF Study and the STE-QUEST Instruments Mid-Term Review data packages. Read more

STE-QUEST CDF study - External Final Presentation 30 June 2011 This is a summary of the study performed at ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) into the M-class mission Space-Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence Principle Space Test (STE-QUEST). Read more

STE-QUEST Mission Proposal 03 December 2010 This STE-QUEST mission proposal was submitted in 2010 to ESA in response to the Call for medium-size (M-class) missions in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan with a launch opportunity in the period 2020-22. Read more