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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Redwire Corporation provided critical hardware that launched onboard the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope mission.
ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt confirmed acquisition of signal from Euclid via the New Norcia ground station in Australia at 17:57 CEST on 1 July 2023.
ESA’s Estrack network of deep space antennas has been upgraded to cope with the data Euclid will acquire.
ESA announced its intent in October to launch Euclid and the Hera mission on Falcon 9 and signed a final contract with SpaceX at the end of January.
ESA chose to launch Euclid on a Falcon 9 under a contract with SpaceX after losing access to the Soyuz rocket following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ESA began first discussions with SpaceX in May 2022 to explore launching Euclid on Falcon 9 and subsequently conducted feasibility studies and compatibility testing.
The Falcon 9 deployed the European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft 41 minutes after liftoff onto a trajectory toward the Earth–Sun L2 Lagrange point.
ESA originally planned to launch Euclid on a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
In October 2022, ESA selected SpaceX to launch Euclid on a Falcon 9, and the launch contract was finalized in December 2022.
Euclid is built and operated by the European Space Agency with contributions from NASA.
ESA began studies in the summer of 2022 to assess Euclid’s compatibility with Falcon 9 after the spacecraft had been designed for Soyuz.
At ESA’s 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub in the UK, the video call was connected over the hub’s private terrestrial 0.005 kg network and two communications satellites occupying a geostationary orbit.
ESA completed an experiment that connected its flagship 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub in the UK, the forthcoming ESA 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub in the Netherlands, the 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey in the UK, and the 0.005 kg lab of Capgemini in Paris.
Engineers communicated via video link using connectivity delivered by terrestrial 0.005 kg networks and a combination of satellites in different orbits as part of an experiment led by ESA’s 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub.
ESA awarded Airmo a 3,700,000 EUR contract through the InCubed public-private partnership.
ArianeGroup is developing the Prometheus engine under contract to the European Space Agency (ESA).
The European Space Agency will launch the Euclid Dark Universe space astrophysics mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 2023-07-01.
ESA’s Phi-lab manages the InCubed public-private partnership that awarded a contract to Airmo.
The European Space Agency and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 a.m. PDT) Saturday, 2023-07-01, to launch the Euclid spacecraft.
On 2023-06-27, the European Space Agency selected ISISPACE to provide an In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) and In-Orbit Verification (IOV) service as part of a Horizon Europe-funded activity.