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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An orbital verification phase will take place after separation and before delivery of Proba-3 to the European Space Agency.
ESA’s ScyLight (Secure and Laser communication technology) program supports research, development, and evolution of optical communication laser technologies and provides flight opportunities for on-orbit verification.
The ESA ARTES Pioneer program is a multi-year project to design and develop a solution to enable companies to provide satellite constellations at reduced cost and reduced timeframe.
The LASCO coronagraph on the European Space Agency–NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory was launched in 1995.
The contract between ESA and ICEYE is the first CSS Partnership contract signed under the Civil Security from Space Programme.
ICEYE and ESA will collaborate under a three-year partnership on the "Disaster Management from Space" project to develop a comprehensive suite of Disaster Management Solutions.
The UK Space Agency contributed £2.2 million as a participating member state to the ESA InCubed initiative supporting MANTIS.
MANTIS is the first satellite to be launched under ESA InCubed, the co-funding program run by ESA Φ-lab for commercial development across the Earth observation value chain.
ESA announced on 2023-09-21 that the Ariane 6 long-duration static-fire test would be delayed because of a problem with the rocket’s thrust vector control system.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency plan to launch the MANTIS satellite aboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission.
The UK Space Agency contributed £2.2 million as a participating member state to the ESA InCubed initiative supporting the MANTIS mission.
The European Space Agency initiated the Moonlight program to support space companies in Europe to create a constellation of lunar satellites.
Intelsat 45 (IS-45) is the first HummingSat and is being developed under an ESA Partnership Project with SWISSto12.
The European Space Agency launched a competition for business ideas that use lunar communication and navigation services to address customer needs on Earth and on the Moon.
ESA interrupted some Euclid test measurements on 2023-08-18 and performed other observations while addressing stray-light issues.
ESA aims to enable space companies to integrate future satellites into terrestrial networks and use commercial off-the-shelf components and software.
The European Space Agency has initiated the Solaris project focused on space-based solar power.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen are scheduled to perform a spacewalk on 2023-10-12 to perform station maintenance and collect science samples.
The initiative called 'ESA Specifications for Terabit/second Optical Links' aims to develop interoperable commercial products and services for optical high-capacity satellite networks.
A group of space companies, research centers, and universities working with ESA has established specifications for satellite optical communication.