Agence spatiale européenne
The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to space exploration, with 22 member states. Founded in 1975, ESA shapes Europe's space capabilities, ensuring investments in space deliver benefits to European citizens, working across the entire space sector. ESA develops and operates Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, and astronomy satellites and sends probes to explore the solar system, partnering with agencies like NASA, JAXA and commercial partners like Airbus. Key programs include the development of launch vehicles like Ariane and Vega, the Galileo satellite navigation system, and missions like Rosetta and BepiColombo.
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The campaign was coordinated by the DLR Institute for High Frequency Technology and Radar Systems in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA’s JUICE spacecraft flew past the Moon in August 2024 to calibrate its radar system.
Damien Rodat represents CNES in ESA's S2 Quality Working Group.
The Surface Avatar experiment series, started in 2022, is led by the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in collaboration with ESA and the German Space Operations Center GSOC.
The Sentinel-2 mission is similar to the 'GMES continental' proposal shared with ESA.
An Image Quality team of six CNES engineers was set up in 2008 to collaborate with ESA on Sentinel-2.
The Sentinel-2 mission was funded by the EU's Copernicus budget and contributions from ESA and its member states.
The number of robots in the experiment increased with the addition of ESA's quadrupedal robot Spot, which is larger and equipped with a manipulator arm.
Karol Sobczak, head of the Polish delegation at the ESA, commented on Poland's growing role within the European Space Agency.
The Polish government funded Uznański-Wiśniewski's trip, supported by the ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA).
Uznański-Wiśniewski will fly to Cologne to be monitored by the ESA's Space Medicine team at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) as he readjusts to Earth's gravity.
Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director for Human and Robotic Exploration, emphasized that the landing does not mark the end of the Ignis mission.
Axiom 4 was the second commercial crewed space mission with an ESA project astronaut onboard.
Indian institutes had two microgravity experiments aboard Ax-4 that were conducted jointly with the European Space Agency.
ESA awarded ArianeGroup a contract for Themis in 2020 with the original expectation that the vehicle would be ready for full suborbital flight tests as early as 2023.
Themis is a European reusable demonstrator vehicle powered by the Prometheus engine and supported by both ESA and the European Commission through the SALTO project.
Prometheus is a methane-fueled engine developed in Europe with reuse in mind and is linked to ESA-supported reusable vehicle efforts.
ESA awarded ArianeGroup a contract for Themis in 2020 with initial expectations for more advanced flight testing than the current hop-test schedule.
European efforts on reusable launch technologies include the Prometheus methane engine and the Themis demonstrator, which are supported by ESA and the European Commission through the SALTO project.
ESA is responsible for the design and development of the MetOp-SG satellites, while EUMETSAT manages the launch services and operates the satellites.