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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On April 26, ESA announced the start of the launch campaign for the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
The technological achievement was supported by ESA contracts 4000140073/22/UK/ND and 4000136553/22/NL/FGL implemented under ESA’s Optical & Quantum Communications - ScyLight Strategic Programme Line within the ARTES program of the Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communications.
ESA will work closely with Phi-Lab Austria to establish centre operations, select the first projects, and link those projects with relevant ESA expertise.
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) supplies thermal insulation, mechanisms, and structures to the next generation of European Galileo navigation satellites.
Vyoma will mirror ESA operations on collision avoidance and validate its own optimal maneuver solutions.
ESA is granting Vyoma access to the Conjunction Data Messages and CAM solutions of up to five Earth Explorer missions.
Vyoma and the European Space Agency (ESA) kicked off a 14-month project to evaluate the Vyoma Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CAM) recommendation service.
The ESA contracts were implemented under ESA’s Optical & Quantum Communications – ScyLight Strategic Program Line, which is part of the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program within the Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communications.
Kuva Space was awarded a €1.8 million contract to participate in the European Space Agency’s Civil Security from Space program to provide advanced hyperspectral situational awareness information.
SPP II missions include the Einstein Probe, which launched in early 2025, and the upcoming Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) in collaboration with the European Space Agency.
SMILE was selected from a pool of 13 potential missions proposed to ESA and CAS in response to a joint call for mission concepts in 2015.
The technological achievement was supported by ESA contracts 4000140073/22/UK/ND and 4000136553/22/NL/FGL.
SMILE is the first mission since the 1990s Double Star mission that ESA and China have selected, designed, implemented, launched, and operated together.
NASA and the European Space Agency aim to return scientifically selected samples from Mars, differentiating their mission from China's more general sample collection approach.
Kuva Space will provide hyperspectral data to the European Space Agency under a 1,800,000 EUR contract announced 2024-04-29.
Another pair of Galileo satellites will launch on a Falcon 9 later in 2024, alongside separate Falcon 9 launches of ESA’s EarthCARE Earth science mission and Hera asteroid mission.
The 2024-04-27 mission was the second European institutional mission to fly on a Falcon 9 following ESA’s Euclid space telescope launch in 2023-07-01.
The European Space Agency contracted with SpaceX to launch up to four Galileo spacecraft over two launches in 2024.
The European Space Agency selected the IRMA and PhiFireAI projects to test their technologies in orbit on the Φsat-2 microsatellite.
ESA launched an open challenge in early 2023 to select two innovative AI experiments to fly on Φsat-2.