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 EarthCARE satellite was developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Thales Alenia Space signed a framework contract with the European Space Agency worth a total of €522m to continue activities for the completion of the ExoMars 2028 mission.
Satellites Aerospacelab deployed to date have been a mix of Aerospacelab technology demonstrators and remote sensing customer payloads for the European Space Agency and the Swiss Ministry of Defense.
NASA developed a revised baseline architecture that would launch the ESA-developed Earth Return Orbiter in 2030.
The technology ReOrbit developed for the ESA InCubed program has been confirmed to be purchased by KaleidEO, a subsidiary of SatSure Analytics India.
Kepler Communications, TESAT-Spacecom, and Airbus Defence and Space have entered into an agreement to develop a high-bandwidth optical communications network in low Earth orbit to address opportunities including ESA’s HydRON program.
One of the 2022 ESA HydRON study contracts was led by Airbus and another was led by Thales Alenia Space.
The European Space Agency awarded a contract worth 522,000,000 EUR to a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space to restart work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission.
ExoMars was scheduled to launch in September 2022 on a Russian Proton rocket as part of a partnership between ESA and Roscosmos that included Russian development of a landing platform for the rover.
The European Space Agency plans to award contracts for the next phase of HydRON before the end of summer.
ESA suspended cooperation on the ExoMars mission weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and placed the completed rover in storage.
Kepler Communications was a subcontractor within two competing groups that won early ESA study contracts in 2022 for a multi-orbit HydRON demonstration mission.
Using commercial cargo and crew vehicles developed in Europe with support from the European Space Agency could be part of maintaining ESA access to low Earth orbit via Starlab.
Airbus and Voyager signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Space Agency to explore using Starlab to provide ESA continued access to low Earth orbit after the retirement of the International Space Station.
ESA awarded the industrial prime contract to OHB Sweden and the Arctic Weather Satellite was completed 36 months after that contract award.
The European Space Agency selected Mynaric to investigate optical technologies for next-generation high-throughput optical inter-satellite links.
NASA and the European Space Agency have produced several versions of a LunaNet Interoperability Specification that mentions the creation of a Lunar Time System Standard, and documentation for that standard has not been developed.
Institutional support from Arts Council England’s Lottery Grant funded the Fingertip Galaxy project, which later received additional funding from MSSL and ESA.
The European Space Agency’s Euclid Mission successfully launched on July 1, 2023, from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 rocket to its L2 orbit.
During the Ariane 6 launch, the YPSat team will be situated in a control room at ESA’s ESOC mission control centre to receive telemetry.