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 LUNA research center is a joint project of DLR and the European Space Agency (ESA) that prepares astronauts and robots for lunar missions.
Avio signed contracts with the European Space Agency for upgrades to the Vega rocket and its launch facilities and for the launch of an Earth science mission.
Avio signed a contract with ESA to launch the Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) spacecraft.
A second ESA contract will fund further development of the Vega E upgraded rocket up to final ground qualification.
Blue Ghost 2 is scheduled for 2026 to land on the lunar farside and to deploy the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder communications satellite into orbit.
SpaceRISE, the consortium comprising Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, signed an agreement with the European Commission and the European Space Agency to design, deliver and operate the IRIS² infrastructure for a period of 12 years.
Teledyne Space Imaging seeks to consolidate its work with NASA and ESA into 2025 and beyond.
Filippo Marliani is the LISA project manager at ESA.
Teledyne Space Imaging has been awarded the role of Prime Contractor for the CAS (Constellation Acquisition Sensor) instrument for the ESA LISA mission.
LISA is a mission led by ESA, in partnership with their member states and NASA, to study gravitational waves emitted during powerful events.
The European Space Agency will provide €55 million to IRIS2.
The European Commission and European Space Agency signed contracts with an industrial consortium on 2024-12-16 to develop a secure connectivity constellation costing 10,600,000,000 EUR.
The European Space Agency is providing 550,000,000 EUR to IRIS² that was allocated at its 2022 ministerial conference.
The UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency provided about $35,000,000 in funding for the mission.
Orbex has won more than a dozen research and development contracts from the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
Sentinel-1C is a radar imaging satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for the Copernicus program run by the European Space Agency and the European Commission.
Copernicus is a joint program of the European Union and ESA, providing satellite-based information services for land surface, oceans, atmosphere, disaster management, climate change, and civil security.
The Vega C return to flight followed the retirement of Ariane 5 and delays in the introduction of Ariane 6, contributing to a European launcher shortfall that required use of SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for key science and navigation spacecraft.
Neuraspace’s telescope precision reduces positional uncertainty to less than 100 m within a single orbital revolution, meeting the 2023 ESA Space Debris Mitigation Requirement.
DLR teams from Oberpfaffenhofen are collaborating with ESA on the calibration and validation of Sentinel-1C systems.