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 European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter cost $1.5 billion.
SpaceX launched the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, 2024-10-07.
The European Space Agency is launching several Phi-labs across Europe to accelerate the future of Earth Observation, deliver innovation, reduce time-to-market, and potentially disrupt and transform markets.
Redwire Corporation is providing an onboard computer system for the European Space Agency’s Hera mission.
ESA’s Space Debris Office will use the Neuraspace service on a daily basis to assess close approaches of ESA satellites for missions operated from the European Space Operations Centre.
Ongoing development of Europe's space transportation capabilities is supported by thousands of people working in ESA's 22 Member States.
The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management from ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup, and Arianespace.
ESA’s European Space Operations Centre operates a diverse set of missions that will serve as a testing and validation ground for space traffic management technologies and services.
Greenerwave is developing an Electronically Steered Array (ESA) terminal that provides fast switching between multiple networks and multiple orbits and includes Intelsat custom features.
On 16 September 2024, the European Space Agency awarded Neuraspace a contract to offer and integrate its space traffic management solutions for a number of ESA missions.
The European Space Agency’s Arctic Weather Satellite delivered the first images captured by its scientific weather payload supplied by AAC Clyde Space.
Early on-orbit operations for the April Galileo launch were executed by the Galileo Service Operator with support from around 30 satellite experts from ESA and manufacturer OHB at the Galileo Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen under the responsibility of EUSPA.
The revised ESA mission will instead seek to remove the ESA Project for On-Board Autonomy-1 (Proba-1) satellite from low Earth orbit along with other changes.
A version of the XFM is being developed under ESA’s Space Safety Programme for NOAA’s Space Weather NEXT program with a scheduled launch in 2029 to the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
ICEYE signed the contract for the Greek National Satellite Space Project Axis 1.2 (radar program) with the Greek Space Agency and the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance, together with the European Space Agency.
The Galileo satellites launched on 2024-04-28 were launched by SpaceX under contract with ESA.
SWISSto12 developed the HummingSat geostationary telecommunications satellite in collaboration with the European Space Agency through a public-private partnership program.
Kuva Space plans to deploy its second hyperspectral satellite, Hyperfield-1B, in 2025-01-01 as part of the ESA InCubed program.
On 2024-08-21, ESA, OHB, and payload manufacturer SSTL assessed the on-orbit test results and concluded that the April-launched satellites did not suffer degradation during launch.
Sunstorm was launched in 2021 as part of a mission that started under the European Space Agency’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP).