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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Quantum Space proposed using a version of its Ranger spacecraft to transport samples returned to cislunar space back to Earth and stated that the approach could be ready as soon as 2033 while reducing the complexity and mass of the ESA Earth Return Orbiter.
GomSpace signed a contract change notice with the European Space Agency for 325,000€ (3.8 MSEK) to support additional project activities for the Juventas mission.
The 325,000€ contract amendment between GomSpace and ESA will take full effect 2024.
D-Orbit was among the Italian companies selected by the European Space Agency last year to build an Earth observation constellation for Italy.
The Jupiter-bound ESA spacecraft JUICE flew past the Moon in mid-August and activated its radar instrument to characterize and calibrate detections before studying the Jovian icy moons.
Satellite fleet operators SES, Eutelsat, and Hispasat are leading the SpaceRISE consortium and are responsible for providing private industry funds for IRIS² alongside funding from the European Space Agency and European Union member states.
GMV has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency to lead the CyberCUBE mission under ESA’s Cybersecurity Operations Centre Cyber Evolutions program.
Astron Systems has raised more than $600,000 to date from private investment, grants from Innovate UK and ESA, and backing from Techstars Space.
Mina Mitry, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Kepler Communications, and Laurent Jaffart, ESA Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications, signed the HydRON Element #1 contract.
The European Space Agency Business Incubator Centre United Kingdom supported Astron Systems’ early hardware development.
The European Space Agency funds the CRIMSON project under its Core Activities for Clean Space within the COSMIC initiative of the Space Safety Program Period 2.
ESA’s PROBA-1, PROBA-2, and PROBA-V missions that Redwire prime contracted have a combined flight time of nearly 50 years without failure.
ESA/Galileo is committing $170,000,000 to upgrades for its navigation services.
Arianespace will launch the Sentinel-1C Copernicus satellite for the European Commission under a contract signed with the European Space Agency (ESA).
Copernicus is the European Union’s space program Earth Observation component managed by the European Commission and funded by the European Union with a contribution from ESA.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and OHB Italia Managing Director Roberto Aceti signed the €63 million Ramses contract on 2024-10-17 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy.
ESA will be the anchor customer for the Moonlight constellation.
The Passively cooled IR Observatory Telescope (POIROT) concept was proposed by Dr. Timothy Hawarden to ESA in 1989.
Since 2023, the European Space Agency has backed seven Greek CubeSat missions developed by small and medium-sized companies and universities through the Greek National Small Satellite Program.
ESA is advancing the Moonlight constellation via a Telespazio-led industry consortium.