Cosmic visions is a European Space Agency initiative to plan missions to be launched between 2015-2025. And there is no shortage of ideas!

Missions include:

• XEUS - the next generation X-ray telescope, designed to look at the hottest and most violent regions of space
• LISA - a mission to detect and measure gravity waves, emitted when massive objects violently collide
• SPICA - a mission to explore how stars and planets form
• PLATO aims to search for planets orbiting distant stars
• TANDEM will...