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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In July 2024, ESA Member States approved the use of existing Agency funds to begin preparatory work on Ramses’ Consolidation / Early Implementation phase.
ESA noted that the Edison architecture represents a logical path for future cooled telescopes.
ESA aims to launch the remaining Moonlight satellites by the end of the decade.
The POIROT concept was submitted by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh for ESA funding.
John McFall, an ESA reserve astronaut with a prosthetic leg, stated there were no showstoppers for his flight to the ISS based on ESA's findings.
ESA signed a €63 million contract with OHB Italia SpA to begin preparatory work on the Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis.
ESA declined to fund the POIROT proposal in 1990 but recognized its importance.
EAGLE-1 is being developed with support from the European Space Agency and about 20 European partners.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) in late 1995 in cooperation with NASA and JAXA.
In 1993, the Edison architecture proposal was submitted to ESA in response to the Medium Mission 3 (M3) solicitation.
ESA signed a contract with SSTL in September 2021 worth $23.5 million for communications services from Lunar Pathfinder.
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB Italia to begin preparatory work on the Ramses mission during the International Astronautical Congress in Milan on 2024-10-17.
Free Earth-observation datasets from the European Space Agency, NASA, and the U.S. Geological Survey have helped organizations worldwide develop object-detection platforms.
IRIDE is funded by Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan and managed by the European Space Agency and the Italian space agency ASI.
The IRIDE constellation will be operational by 2026 and is managed by the European Space Agency in conjunction with the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Thales Alenia Space signed a €107 million contract with the European Space Agency for the supply of six additional radar-based satellites for the Italian Earth observation constellation IRIDE.
Hera won funding at the ESA ministerial meeting in late 2019, allowing its development to proceed.
ESA demonstrated the ability to move quickly on a spacecraft mission by compiling the final flight software during the flight to Florida.
ESA regrouped and proposed Hera after the failure to secure funding for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) at a 2016 ministerial meeting.
Hera, which launched on October 7, is deploying ESA’s first deep-space cubesats to visit the Didymos asteroid system.