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The meeting agenda is organized around observing techniques, similar to the Exoplanet Forum 2008 to correspond with the structure of the Exoplanet Exploration Program Forum 2008 Report. The results of the meeting will be made available to the national Research Council's Decadal Review, Astro 2010.

Over 300 exoplanets have been discovered in the last decade as more and more scientists turn their attention to this exciting field. While the majority of these planets have been found from ground-based telescopes, space missions have begun to make their mark with MOST, CoRoT, Spitzer and Hubble beginning the detailed characterization of these planets. NASA's Kepler is poised to begin its search for transiting planets as small as the Earth.

New space missions will play a vital role in the next decade, including the general purpose James Webb Space Telescope and possibly one or more specialized missions ranging from Explorers to medium or large strategic exoplanet missions. The purpose of the meeting "Missions for Exoplanets: 2010-2020" is to bring together the advocates of NASA-funded and independently developed concepts to present the science their mission promises to achieve, as well as the technical attributes, technology needs, and the strengths and risks of each proposed mission.

"Missions for Exoplanets: 2010-2020" is sponsored by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) and jointly organized with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), the Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies, the Goddard Spaceflight Center Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics and the JPL Center for Exoplanet Science.

Materials and Outputs

In addition to fostering communication within the community of scientists, technologists and mission developers, it is the intent of the ExEP to use the material presented at this meeting to inform the Program's planning for future technology development and future science investigation opportunities. It is important, therefore, that stakeholders and interested parties make a diligent effort to present complete and balanced treatments of their concepts and state of technology. Sessions were organized around observing techniques. Each session was introduced by a speaker providing a summary of the scientific goals and technology challenges identified in the 2008 Report.

ExEP will also package the material presented at this workshop for delivery to appropriate panel(s) of the NRC Decadal Survey for their use. For this purpose, the "material presented" was not limited to the charts displayed during the allocated presentation time, but could include additional annotations, whitepapers, concept reports and references.