Conclusions
摘要
This chapter summarises and draws together the results of the previous chapters of this work. Using the assumption that the exploitation and contributions to the Science Programme should scale with a Member State’s financial contribution to the programme, the “exploitation” (number of publications) is contrasted with the “contributions” (number of payload elements provided) to the ESA Science Programme. Some of the ESA Member States who excel in these areas are highlighted. The acceptance rates of proposals submitted requesting observing time on ESA’s observatories (XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL and Herschel) are used to investigate success rate dependence on academic age, gender and institute country.