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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Germany committed 3,500,000,000 EUR to the European Space Agency at the November ministerial summit, more than any other ESA member.
HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 0.013 kg are based on the Eurostar Neo telecommunications satellite platform developed under an ESA partnership project with Airbus.
Swissto12’s partnership project with the European Space Agency has secured more than €30 million of support to design the HummingSat platform.
Marcus Wandt is a Swedish former air force officer who was selected as a reserve member of ESA’s astronaut corps in November 2022.
HummingSat is a SmallSat designed for geostationary orbit developed by SWISSto12 in collaboration with ESA through a public-private-partnership program.
Swissto12 expanded into building entire satellites with the support of the European Space Agency.
The IS-45 satellite is based on the HummingSat platform that Swissto12 developed with support from the European Space Agency.
SWISSto12’s partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA) secured over €30 million of support to design the HummingSat platform.
Elytra will serve as the Blue Ghost transfer vehicle and will first deploy the Blue Ghost lander and the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder satellite in lunar orbit.
The IS-45 satellite is based on the HummingSat platform that Swissto12 developed with support from the European Space Agency.
Arianespace and the European Space Agency plan a long-duration hot-fire test of the Ariane 6 core stage in early October following a successful short-duration hot-fire test on 2023-09-05 and an upper-stage firing test on 2023-09-01.
MaiaSpace will leverage the Prometheus engine developed by ArianeGroup on behalf of the European Space Agency for propulsion.
MANTIS, funded through the UK Space Agency and in partnership with ESA, is due to launch in the next few months and will produce high-resolution imagery to monitor logistics, energy infrastructure, and natural resources.
In 2021, the European Space Agency valued the UK contribution to the EU aspects of Copernicus at 750,000,000 EUR over several years.
The 55 Embraer 175 and Mitsubishi CRJ-900 aircraft flown by Air Canada’s Jazz regional partner will be upgraded with Intelsat’s new ESA antenna starting in 2024.
The Ariane 6 program is managed and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
On 2023-09-05 teams from ArianeGroup, CNES, and ESA carried out a complete Ariane 6 launch sequence on the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center concluding with a hot-fire test of the core stage and start-up of the Vulcain 2.1 engine.
ESA plans to set a target launch period for the first Ariane 6 after the conclusion of the long-duration hot-fire test and aims for a launch not too late in 2024 if upcoming tests go well.
NASA and the European Space Agency have a long-standing partnership on several science missions, including the Euclid mission.
The Cosmic Visions program at ESA includes major missions like LISA and EnVision.