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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Arqit recorded $2,600,000 in total income for the six months ended 2023-03-31, primarily from funds provided by the European Space Agency, compared with $12,300,000 for the corresponding prior-year period.
Arqit's space division includes a quantum encryption satellite being built by Redwire that is partly funded by the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency tasked a group led by operator SES to develop and operate a satellite in 2024 to validate quantum key distribution technology.
The European Space Agency awarded Swedish Space Corporation additional support for continuation of NODES encompassing two further development phases.
Swedish Space Corporation was awarded a €2.26 million contract by the European Space Agency with the support of the Swedish National Space Agency under ESA’s ARTES Scylight program for the second phase of the NODES project.
The continued NODES work funded by ESA includes implementation, testing, verification, demonstration of the future service, and commissioning a second optical ground station to be installed at a different SSC site toward the end of 2024.
The European Space Agency successfully deployed the 16-meter-long radar antenna on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission on 2023-05-12.
The ClearSpace-1 mission is supported by ESA’s Space Safety program and is being procured as a service contract with a startup-led commercial consortium to help establish a market for in-orbit servicing and debris removal.
In 2019, ESA selected ClearSpace from a field of more than a dozen candidates to lead the first mission to remove an ESA-owned item from orbit.
The Airbus Eurostar Neo platform was developed under European Space Agency Partnership Projects together with the French space agency CNES and with strong support from the UK Space Agency and other European agencies.
Aeolus is a 1360-kg satellite operated by the European Space Agency.
ClearSpace is seeking co-funding from the European Space Agency for a mission to extend the life of a geostationary Intelsat satellite before it runs out of fuel around 2026–2028.
The European Space Agency awarded a €200,000 contract to Space Infrastructures Ventures in February for the Orbital Outpost 1 study.
Airbus’ Eurostar Neo platform has been developed under the European Space Agency’s Partnership Projects together with the French space agency CNES and with strong support from the UK Space Agency and other European agencies.
CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has been awarded a further contract by the European Space Agency under ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program to expand the development of its Dynamic Predictive Routing tool.
Echodyne designs and delivers high-performance compact solid-state radars based on the company’s patented metamaterials ESA technology.
The final mission design for LUGO will be presented to ESA by the end of 2023 to plan subsequent development and deployment phases.
The ESA LUGO contract follows a year of self-funded Phase 0 that was supported by consortium members.
The European Space Agency issued the first contract for the Lunar Geology Orbiter (LUGO) to an international consortium led by Czech company TRL Space to define the full mission for geological exploration of the Moon.
The UK Space Agency invested £8.5 million in Scottish-based launch technologies through the European Space Agency’s Boost! programme.