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 TeQuantS contract is funded under ESA’s ARTES 4.0 Core Competitiveness program element.
ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer participated in sea survival training with 16 Chinese counterparts off Yantai in 2017 and developed Chinese language skills.
The UK committed £190 million to the ESA ARTES program at the ESA Council of Ministers in November.
SWISSto12 received fresh subscriptions in excess of €30 million for the HummingSat Partnership Project at the ESA Ministerial Conference meeting at the end of November.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with the European Space Agency to lead the TeQuantS (Technological development for space-based Quantum reSource distribution) project.
Aschbacher will seek a 50% increase in ESA exploration funding at the ministerial meeting.
The ARTES-funded Pioneer project worked with companies including Spire Global and AAC Clyde Space to develop infrastructure intended to enable new service providers with low cost and quick access to space.
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.