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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The partnership will focus on European space start-ups incubated in the ESA Business Incubation Centers (BIC) network.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher emphasized the partnership's focus on space commercialization and supporting high-potential space start-ups.
More than 25 ESA BICs have been established across roughly 80 locations in all ESA Member States.
ESA BICs have grown to become the largest network of space incubators in Europe since their launch in 2003.
ESA signed a letter of intent on behalf of its business incubation centers to boost offerings for high-growth space start-ups with market analysis and networking opportunities.
Euroconsult will enhance ESA BIC benefits by providing access to industry-leading market intelligence reports at a preferred rate.
Incubated companies in ESA BICs can remain in the program for up to two years before graduating.
Over 1,200 companies make up the list of ESA BIC alumni and incubated companies to date.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has partnered with Euroconsult to enhance entrepreneurship and the development of innovative space solutions.
The European Space Agency will study how to deal with commercial space stations leading up to its next ministerial council meeting in 2025.
The PRO payload was designed as part of the European Space Agency InCubed Program.
Voyager Space and Airbus intend for the Airbus partnership to expand Starlab’s ecosystem to serve the European Space Agency and its member state space agencies for microgravity research in low Earth orbit.
The European Space Agency aims to reduce its time to hire by 40% with the new set of employees.
The European Space Agency will increase its staff by 200 in the next year to support projects funded by member states at the November ministerial meeting.
The European Space Agency expects to hire about 400 people overall in 2023, including new positions and replacements for existing positions.
The European Space Agency Council approved hiring Carole Mundell as the agency’s next director of science, succeeding the retiring Günther Hasinger.
The European Space Agency plans to hire 200 new employees in 2023 to help implement new projects.
Member states agreed on 2022-11-23 to provide 16,900,000,000 EUR to the European Space Agency over the next three years.
In early 2018 Airbus was awarded the prime contract for the EGNOS V3 Implementation Phase by ESA on behalf of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).
The European Space Agency selected OHB Italia S.p.A as the prime contractor to implement the Comet Interceptor science mission.