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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OPS-SAT is a flying laboratory that ESA offers to teams across Europe to test innovative new software that is too risky to load onto normal operational satellites.
NASA is providing 40 RHUs as part of its contribution to the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, slated for launch in 2028.
The Czech Republic became a full member of the European Space Agency in 2008.
CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) was awarded a further contract by the European Space Agency under ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program with the support of the UK Space Agency to expand development of its Dynamic Predictive Routing tool.
Texus-58 launched with three ESA-led experiments.
Texus-59 is scheduled to launch on 1 May carrying two ESA experiments alongside the Topoflame flame-propagation investigation from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Arianespace holds a contract from the European Space Agency, acting on behalf of the Italian government, for two Vega C rockets to start launching IRIDE satellites in late 2025 with an option for a third Vega C in 2026.
The OW11FL is an Electronically Scanned Array (ESA) flat panel user terminal suited for OneWeb’s LEO network.
ESA awarded IRIDE satellite manufacturing contracts to Italy-based teams led by Thales Alenia Space, Argotec, Sitael, OHB, and D-Orbit.
NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had previously agreed to operate the International Space Station beyond 2024 to 2030.
The Thales researchers modified images captured by OPS-SAT’s camera and masked selected geographic areas in the satellite imagery while concealing their activities to avoid detection by ESA.
OPS-SAT is a nanosatellite operated by the European Space Agency for demonstration purposes.
Texus-58 launched on 25 April at 07:20 CEST with three ESA-led experiments.
Texus-59 launched on 1 May with two ESA experiments and the Topoflame flame-propagation investigation from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
In 2022, SSC signed ESA’s Statement for a Responsible Space Sector together with other members from the European space sector.
A late-2028 launch profile for Tianwen-3 would deliver samples to Earth before the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission.
Spaceport Esrange will host tests of ESA’s Themis program for reusable rockets, a program led by ArianeGroup.
Marcus Wandt was selected as a reserve astronaut in the new ESA astronaut class announced in November 2022.
Under the three-way agreement, the European Space Agency would serve as the crew provider, sign an agreement with Axiom Space to define and implement the mission, and assign an ESA astronaut to it.
Italy contributed €680.2 billion to the European Space Agency in 2022, the third-largest contribution after France and Germany.