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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Intelsat expects to begin delivering and installing ESA shipsets in early 2024.
Intelsat announced the ESA antenna in June 2022.
Intelsat’s ESA is the only commercially available aviation antenna that can operate between low Earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites.
Astroscale UK plans to demonstrate the ELSA-M servicer in 2024 in partnership with OneWeb, the UK Space Agency, and the European Space Agency.
Astroscale plans to remove a yet-to-be-announced defunct satellite from low Earth orbit next year as part of the ELSA-m mission in partnership with OneWeb and the U.K. and European space agencies.
Astroscale UK plans to demonstrate the ELSA-M servicer in 2024 in partnership with OneWeb, the UK Space Agency, and the European Space Agency.
ESA invested about €2 billion in the Orion program and contracted Airbus to lead the European consortium to build six European Service Modules to date.
Airbus engineers produce the European Service Modules together with ESA and industry partners, including suppliers from 10 countries.
ESA introduced the new Galileo test signal component aboard a satellite that was not initially designed to host such capability.
Under a €110 million contract from the European Space Agency awarded in 2020, ClearSpace aims to use its servicer’s robotic arms to capture a spent upper stage from a 2013 Vega launch.
ESA invested about €2 billion in the Orion program.
Further ESMs 7, 8, and 9 were authorized at the ESA ministerial council in November 2022 and Airbus is finalizing an offer to provide them.
Airbus engineers produce the European Service Modules together with ESA and industry partners, including suppliers from 10 countries.
ESA contracted Airbus to lead the European consortium and build six European Service Modules to date.
Airbus was selected as prime contractor for the JUICE mission by ESA in 2015.
The European Space Agency selected Mynaric to investigate optical technologies for next-generation high-throughput optical inter-satellite links.
The Mechanical Assembly for Reflectarray Antennas of SmallSats (MARAS) project is funded through ESA ARTES 4.0.
ESA supports the development of new satellite telecommunication technologies through the ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) Program.
DCUBED's proposal for the MARAS project was rated as the best in Europe by the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA's activity Deployable Mechanisms for Multi Flat-Panel Reflectarray Antennas for Small Satellites aims to enable small telecommunications satellites to carry deployable reflect arrays.