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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ESA will seek more than 18,000,000,000 EUR for the next three years as part of its ministerial proposal.
The United Kingdom committed £190 million to the ESA ARTES programme at the ESA Council of Ministers in November.
Since 2018 Thales Alenia Space has been implementing a roadmap to develop mature end-to-end quantum communications through projects initiated by the European Commission (OPENQKD, QSAFE) and ESA (SAGA).
The ESA funding commitment announced at the Ministerial Conference represents a 16.6% increase from the previous ministerial in 2019.
After being selected by ESA as prime contractor in 2015, Airbus led a pan-European industrial consortium to design and build the JUICE spacecraft.
The general trend toward higher data rates and higher downlink frequencies for ESA institutional Earth Observation satellites requires the use of novel protocols to improve the robustness and resiliency of LEO-to-Earth communication.
ESA will seek 18,700,000,000 EUR for the next three years under a more specific funding figure.
The MANTIS nanosatellite is funded by the UK Space Agency through the European Space Agency InCubed programme.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract to develop quantum technologies as part of a European Space Agency effort to use subatomic particle behavior to secure communications.
ESA members agreed to contribute €16.923 billion over the next three years at the Ministerial Conference.
The study will refine the future dataflow ground architecture for ESA Earth Observation satellites and deliver a roadmap for its adaptation in the timeframe 2027-2035.
The 18,700,000,000 EUR request would represent a more than 25% increase from the 14,500,000,000 EUR ESA secured at the 2019 ministerial meeting.
In November, the British government committed 190 million British pounds to participate in international telecommunications missions under the European Space Agency.
ESA members agreed to contribute €16.923 billion over the next three years at the November Ministerial Conference, a 16.6% increase from the 2019 ministerial.
SWISSto12 collaborates closely with ESA to foster innovation in the European space industry and to develop new satellite products.
The HummingSat Partnership Project received new subscriptions in excess of €30 million at the November ESA Ministerial Conference.
Airbus was selected by ESA as prime contractor for JUICE in 2015 and has led a pan-European industrial consortium to design and build the spacecraft.
Josef Aschbacher is in discussions with ESA member states about implementing a policy requiring immediate removal of spacecraft from orbit after mission end.
ESA secured 60,000,000 EUR at its November ministerial council meeting to fund Solaris, a feasibility study of generating solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth.
ClearSpace, the Swiss startup that won the ESA contract for ClearSpace-1, raised $29,000,000 on 2023-01-19 to advance work on the spacecraft for a planned launch in 2026.