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 EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS payload was developed with support from the French Government via the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales and the Investing in the Future program, together with the European Space Agency.
Satcube named renowned ESA astronaut and physicist Christer Fuglesang as a company advisor.
Thales Alenia Space developed SpaceGate with support from France’s CNES and the European Space Agency research and development programs.
NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided complementary data for M74.
Dawn Aerospace received a 200,000 EUR award in early August from the European Space Agency to bolster the performance of its green bi-propellant satellite thrusters.
The C-SOC will provide resilient and redundant security coverage to ESA infrastructure through a distributed architecture that monitors and manages vulnerabilities 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
Spaceit is part of a consortium of 19 companies led by Leonardo as Prime Contractor to design, implement, build, validate, and operate ESA’s Cyber-Security Operations Centre (C-SOC).
The European Union is the lead authority for the Copernicus program while the European Space Agency develops, builds, launches the dedicated Sentinel satellites and operates some of the missions.
Busek’s product line includes miniature electrospray thrusters based on technology developed with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission launched in 2015.
In May 2021, ESA entrusted an international industrial team led by Telespazio to conduct a study on the use on the Moon of satellite communication and navigation services.
Deorbiting of Sentinel-1B will be carried out according to ESA space debris mitigation requirements in place at the time of Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B design, with atmospheric re-entry required to take place within 25 years.
The European Space Agency awarded Dawn Aerospace €200,000 in GSTP funding to increase the performance of its green bi-propellant thrusters for satellites.
European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany serves as Europe’s center of excellence for mission operations and houses engineers who control spacecraft in orbit and manage ESA’s global tracking station network.
ESA and the European Commission are buying SAR data from other satellites, including Canada’s Radarsat-2 and Radarsat Constellation Mission, Germany’s TerraSAR-X, Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed, and Spain’s PAZ.
TMYTEK’s high-power ESA testbed solution uses a transmission phased array with 192 elements instead of 1,600 elements to achieve a 78-dBm EIRP Ka-Band ESA.
ESA signed a contract with Arianespace in April for the Vega-C launch of Sentinel-1C with the launch originally scheduled for some time in the first half of 2023.
The European Space Agency awarded Dawn Aerospace €200,000 in GSTP funding to increase the performance of the firm’s green bi-propellant thrusters for satellites.
LEOX was previously used to perform atomic oxygen testing on candidate solar array materials for ESA’s Juice mission.
ESA will fund half of the 950,000 EUR Starbuck Mini project and AAC Clyde Space will fund the other half.
The European Space Agency’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program provides funding to help European and Canadian industry develop innovative SATCOM technology, products, and systems.