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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PCIOD by DCUBED developed a deployable NanoSat 100 W solar array that fits in a 1U stowage volume and produced an engineering model that underwent vibe, shock, and thermal vacuum testing under an ESA ARTES AT activity.
The European Space Agency funds and manages Ariane 6 developments and ArianeGroup implements the launcher system as prime contractor.
OQ Technology plans to launch the LSA- and ESA-supported MACSAT mission in March 2023.
The commercial Goonhilly Earth Station in the United Kingdom will provide support for HAKUTO Mission 1 as part of the Estrack extended network.
European Space Agency collaborates with ispace to provide communication services between ispace’s lunar spacecraft and ESA teams on Earth throughout the mission.
ESA provided sole ground station support to ispace via ispace EUROPE in Luxembourg for HAKUTO Mission 1, marking the first time ESA has provided sole ground station support for a commercial space mission.
ESA’s ground stations supported a commercial Moon landing for the first time with HAKUTO Mission 1.
ESA will conduct the process of acquiring commands to the spacecraft and returning experimental data from deep space and from the Moon’s surface for HAKUTO Mission 1.
The developments for Ariane 6 are funded and managed by the European Space Agency and implemented by ArianeGroup.
The European Space Agency is the largest customer of the MASER program and funded several experiments onboard SubOrbital Express 3.
ExoMars was stranded after the European Space Agency terminated cooperation with Russia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine months before the mission’s planned September 2022 launch.
The European Space Agency sought about half of the 700,000,000 EUR needed to replace components Russia was originally to provide for ExoMars, including the landing platform that would deliver the Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars.
The European Space Agency’s budget was increased by 17% compared to the last Ministerial meeting in 2019.
ESA is targeting a maximum of three years from signing contracts to the first LEO-PNT satellites in orbit, matching the timescale achieved by GIOVE-A in the early 2000s.
ESA plans to build and fly an initial mini-constellation of at least half a dozen LEO-PNT satellites to test capabilities, key technologies, and demonstrate signals and frequency bands for a follow-on operational constellation.
Vega C debuted in July by launching an Italian physics satellite and six cubesats in a non‑commercial mission managed by the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency is set to announce a new astronaut class that will include career and reserve astronauts.
Five of the 17 selected astronauts are career astronauts who will join ESA full-time and start training at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, in April.
The European Space Agency sought a little more than 3,000,000,000 EUR for space transportation overall at the ministerial meeting, including 600,000,000 EUR for an Ariane 6 transition program.
The 16.923 billion-euro three-year package for ESA represents a 16.6% increase from the previous ministerial in 2019 before accounting for inflation.