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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European Space Agency member states agreed to a first step of changes to georeturn policies for ESA programs at a 2024-06-19 briefing concluding an ESA Council meeting.
Panasonic Avionics plans to use ESA technology to combine OneWeb LEO connectivity with capacity leased from geostationary satellite operators.
The nearly 400-hour firing during Ienai’s ESA preliminary design review was the longest firing of an ionic-liquid electrospray thruster in Europe publicly announced to date.
Intelsat has been testing an ESA with Eutelsat OneWeb to combine broadband from their geostationary and LEO satellites for inflight connectivity services slated to begin 2024.
Gilat plans to start shipping nearly 200 ESA antennas to Florida-based inflight connectivity provider Satcom Direct next year.
Phantom is a VLEO platform being developed by Redwire’s European office for the European Space Agency’s Skimsat mission.
The DestinE system includes a Core Service Platform operated by ESA, Digital Twins managed by ECMWF, and a DestinE Data Lake managed by EUMETSAT.
The European Space Agency and its partners announced a 2024-07-09 launch date for Ariane 6’s maiden flight.
Stellar Blu’s ESA-enabled terminal platform is designed to connect aircraft to Ku-band satellites in both geostationary orbit and low Earth orbit.
Gilat expects a low-profile, multi-orbit ESA market with no moving parts to create an inflight connectivity market worth between $700,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 annually over the next 10 years.
Gilat is developing a LEO-only ESA targeting business and government customers.
ESA will provide ground station support for Chang’e-6 through its ESTRACK tracking station network.
Vast builds commercial in‑space habitation, research, and manufacturing facilities to serve NASA, ESA, DLR, and other government space agencies around the globe.
The European Space Agency provided a payload for China’s Chang’e-6 mission.
The development of Airbus’ Eurostar Neo platform and its flexible payloads has been supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and national space agencies across Europe.
Orbital EOS’s digital solution was awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2020 for its highly innovative nature.
The long-term focus of the ESA–Vast agreement is on the space station Vast seeks to develop and offer to NASA through NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program.
The ESA–Vast agreement could include opportunities to fly ESA astronauts or payloads on the smaller Haven-1 station Vast is currently developing.
The European Space Agency signed a memorandum of understanding with Vast on 2024-06-06 during the ILA Berlin air show to study collaboration on Vast’s commercial space stations.
The signed MoU reflects ESA’s ambition for a transition from the International Space Station toward sustained exploitation of human and robotic infrastructures in low Earth orbit after 2030, including through commercial services.