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 Disasters Charter was proposed in 1999 jointly by CNES and ESA.
The ESA spacecraft Hera flew past Mars on March 12, 2025, capturing images of the planet and its moon Deimos.
Hera is equipped with two identical cameras for redundancy, developed by Jena-Optronik and operated in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA).
The European Space Agency's Copernicus program serves as a model for balancing commercial interests and public access in remote sensing data.
The Nyx capsule is intended to visit the International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of ESA.
The RASP (Residual Atmosphere Simulator) research project is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the ARTES program.
The ESA lunar lander is scheduled to launch in the early part of the next decade.
The Argonaut is a key element of ESA's lunar exploration strategy.
ESA signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space in Italy to lead a European consortium for the construction of the first ESA lunar lander.
The Argonaut will cooperate seamlessly with ESA's lunar connection to the Gateway and the communication and navigation systems being developed under the Moonlight Initiative.
The ESA mission PLATO will search for Earth-like planets around over 200,000 stars in the Milky Way starting at the end of 2026.
The launch contract for PLATO was signed by ESA Science Director Carole Mundell, ESA Director for Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen, and Arianespace Chief Commercial Officer Steven Rutgers at the European Space Conference in Brussels.
The European Space Agency has delivered the European Service Modules for the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 missions.
NASA aims to gather these sample containers with the European Space Agency (ESA) and return them to Earth.
The Earth Return Orbiter, which ESA plans to contribute, is responsible for the journey back to Earth.
ESA plans to use fair contribution in 2025 for the European Launcher Challenge competition to support development of new European launch vehicles.
The additional 95,000,000 EUR for ESA’s Boost! program is intended to assist HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Factory Augsburg as they prepare to compete in the European Launcher Challenge.
The European Space Agency will work in 2025 on simplifying georeturn policies ahead of its ministerial meeting in November.
The German government allocated 95,000,000 EUR to ESA’s Boost! program on 2024-12-19 to support German launch companies HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Factory Augsburg.
ClearSpace intends to remove an imaging satellite for the European Space Agency but has not provided a timeline after pivoting from plans to de-orbit part of a Vega rocket in 2026.