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European Space Agency (ESA)

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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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Mobile GIS Services will use the funds to develop a new system that it is working on with the European Space Agency.

CapabilityLegalGeneralValue 2.0Feb 1, 2024MGISS Raises £600K for Mapping Critical Infrastructure Using ESA’s Satellite Imagery

The European Space Agency committed €8 million for the initial A/B phase of HummingSAT and €25 million for the subsequent C/D/E phase.

FinancialPlanValue 5.0Feb 1, 2024Sivers Semiconductors expands partnership with Thorium Space S.A.

Thorium Space is collaborating with the European Space Agency on the HummingSAT project to develop telecommunications satellites for geostationary orbit where Thorium’s digitally-defined payloads will play a key role.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.0Feb 1, 2024Sivers Semiconductors expands partnership with Thorium Space S.A.

ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between 15 June and 31 July 2024.

PlanValue 4.0Jan 30, 2024Ariane 6 joint update report | 2024/01/31

The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of management from ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup, and Arianespace.

GovernanceRelationshipsValue 3.0Jan 30, 2024Ariane 6 joint update report | 2024/01/31

After a Space Summit meeting in November in Seville, Spain, the European Space Agency announced plans for a launcher challenge intended to lead to competition for a wider array of missions.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Jan 30, 2024PLD Space wins Spanish government funding for Miura 5 launch vehicle

In 2022, Viasat and ESA signed a contract to globalize the Iris program under a program called Iris Global.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 30, 2024EasyJet to the skies with Iris: next generation air traffic comms service

ESA led and funded the Iris program and set up a European industrial consortium of more than 20 companies to implement it.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 30, 2024EasyJet to the skies with Iris: next generation air traffic comms service

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working with the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the European Space Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations to establish a robust space weather program.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 2.8Jan 30, 2024Space weather: One major event from a fully funded program

PLD Space was one of five launch companies selected on 2024-01-23 to participate in the European Flight Ticket Initiative led by the European Space Agency and the European Commission.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.2Jan 30, 2024PLD Space wins Spanish government funding for Miura 5 launch vehicle

ESA led and funded Iris to support the European Policy on Single European Skies with a solution providing full European coverage based on secure satellite communication mobile technologies.

CapabilityLegalGeneralValue 4.0Jan 29, 2024EasyJet Takes To The Skies With Iris: Next Generation Air Traffic Communications Service

Iris is an initiative led by the European Space Agency and global communications company Viasat using the latest generation of satellite technology to modernise air traffic management.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 3.2Jan 29, 2024EasyJet Takes To The Skies With Iris: Next Generation Air Traffic Communications Service

Grasp provides software and remote-sensing services to the European Space Agency and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.5Jan 29, 2024Grasp instrument monitors Earth’s atmosphere and surface

The European Space Agency was created in 1975 and has 22 Member States.

GeneralValue 3.0Jan 29, 2024EasyJet Takes To The Skies With Iris: Next Generation Air Traffic Communications Service

Viasat and ESA signed a contract in 2022 to globalise the Iris programme through Iris Global.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Jan 29, 2024EasyJet Takes To The Skies With Iris: Next Generation Air Traffic Communications Service

GHGSat operates a constellation of 12 satellites including Vanguard and monitors industrial facilities while sharing data with NASA, ESA, the United Nations, and the oil and gas industry.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 25, 2024Not Invisible Anymore: Satellites reveal sources of atmospheric methane

PLD Space has been selected by the European Space Agency and the European Commission as one of five companies in the Flight Ticket Initiative to launch institutional missions into space.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 25, 2024ESA and the European Commission give the Flight Ticket Initiative to PLD Space for launch contracts

The SmallCAT development was funded by Netherlands Space Office funds through the ESA ARTES ScyLight program and by the Dutch Ministry of Defense’s innovation budget, with additional co-funding from TNO.

FinancialGeneralRelationshipsValue 4.5Jan 25, 2024TNO Achieves Breakthrough with Dutch Satellite Instrument's Transfer of Laser Data to Earth

The European Commission, the European Space Agency, and the European Investment Bank signed a tripartite agreement on 2024-01-24 to streamline access to financing for the European space sector.

RelationshipsFinancialGovernanceValue 4.2Jan 25, 2024Europe sets up space finance taskforce

In July 2022 NASA decided to use two helicopters based on the Ingenuity design on a future Sample Retrieval Lander mission in place of an ESA-provided rover to pick up Perseverance’s cached samples if necessary.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Jan 25, 2024Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission ends after 72 flights
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