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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Italy won ESA contracts totaling €1.6 billion at the ESA Industrial Policy Committee meeting with expected net revenue of about €800 million.
The SOLARIS initiative was approved at the ESA Council at Ministerial Level in November 2022 as part of Element 1 of the General Support Technology Program.
A political decision at the space summit will guide planning ahead of ESA’s next ministerial council meeting in late 2025, known as CM25, where member states will commit funding to specific programs.
ESA did not set a target date for the first Ariane 6 launch, and ESA stated last fall that the first Ariane 6 launch would take place no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023 after extensive development delays.
ESA will seek political support, but not funding, for future human spaceflight programs recommended by a high-level advisory group in a report released 2023-03-23 titled "Revolution Space."
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou on 2023-04-14.
JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency.
Airbus designed and built JUICE under contract to the European Space Agency with contributions from 80 partners across 23 countries and more than 2,000 people.
The magnetometer boom developed by Sener measures 10.6 meters long when deployed, making it the longest boom made for an ESA project to date.
JUICE is a program of the European Space Agency (ESA) designed to expand knowledge of the interactions between Jupiter and its icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) rolled out to the pad at Kourou, French Guiana on 2023-04-11.
D-Orbit signed a €26 million contract with the European Space Agency for the IRIDE program.
JoeySat was developed under the Sunrise Partnership Project between the European Space Agency and OneWeb.
IRIDE is a space-based observation program initiated by the Italian government and managed by the European Space Agency with involvement from the Italian Space Agency under Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
D-Orbit signed a €26 million contract with the European Space Agency for the IRIDE program.
The European Space Agency will manage the IRIDE project with support from the Italian Space Agency under the PNRR framework.
Five students from the AcubeSAT team traveled from Thessaloniki, Greece, to the CubeSat Support Facility (CSF) in ESA ESEC, Belgium for environmental testing on their On-Board Computer/Attitude Determination & Control System (OBC-ADCS) board.
The CMG 75-75 S wheel and gimbal mechanism use standard components from European manufacturers qualified by CNES and ESA.
SatBus MTQ assembly meets IPC-A-600H class 3 and soldering is performed per ESA specification ECSS-Q-70-08.
The European Space Agency reported almost 3,000 satellites were launched to Low Earth Orbit between 2020 and 2021.