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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Working with ESA, Aalyria will adapt Spacetime to develop a TN/NTN-capable Service Management and Orchestration platform and make it available to partners at ESA’s ECSAT 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub in Harwell, United Kingdom.
The ESA is part of the Artemis lunar exploration effort.
TRUTHS is funded by a set of ESA member states led by the United Kingdom with participation from the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Spain, and Switzerland.
The ESA review board approved the preliminary spacecraft design of the Ariel mission.
EIRSAT-1 was developed by a team of researchers and students at University College Dublin with support from the European Space Agency's Education Programme.
The orchestration system Aalyria will develop under the ESA contract is intended to support applications including maritime connectivity, roaming between satellite and terrestrial assets, in-flight connectivity, and connected vehicles.
Aalyria received a European Space Agency contract on 2023-12-05 to develop an orchestration system for space-based, airborne, maritime, and ground-based nodes.
Under the ESA contract, Aalyria will develop an asset management and orchestration platform that will be available for ESA partners at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in the UK.
The focus in ESA member states shifted to selecting astronauts through the ESA process after 1998.
Rosemary Coogan, John McFall, and Meganne Christian are potential crew members for the UK mission, with Coogan selected as an ESA active astronaut and McFall and Christian as reserve astronauts.
On May 20, 2009, ESA announced six new astronauts, including Tim Peake.
ESA member states approved the agency to begin work on a commercial cargo program to support cargo transport to and from the International Space Station starting as early as 2028.
ESA plans to create a small 'tiger team' to develop the competition for the commercial cargo program.
The agreement for Teledyne e2v Space Imaging to join the TRUTHS mission was signed at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and Airbus.
ESA's 2022 astronaut class includes five career astronauts, 11 reserve astronauts, and one astronaut with a disability.
The UK joined ESA's human spaceflight program after a call from the UK minister for science and innovation to ESA.
The contract includes an option to procure long lead time hardware ahead of the full implementation phase following the 2025 ESA Ministerial budget meeting.
ESA's latest astronaut class, chosen in 2022, will prepare for missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
In 1998, the ESA decided to employ and train its own astronauts.
ESA has earmarked 75 million euros for initial design studies and will award funding to two or three companies.