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’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter used aerobraking operationally in 2017 to lower its orbit around Mars over an 11-month period.
ESA is preparing to adopt either Athena or LISA into the next phase of development in November 2023, with the other mission scheduled for adoption in 2024 or 2025.
The revised Athena concept goal is a minimum disrupted mission that costs ESA no more than 1,300,000,000 EUR while still performing science expected of a flagship-class mission.
The European Space Agency selected the Athena mission in 2014 as one of two flagship astrophysics missions alongside the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
The European Space Agency will fund half of the 0.95 MEUR Starbuck Mini project and AAC Clyde Space will fund the other half.
HummingSat is being developed under a Partnership Project between the European Space Agency and SWISSto12.
On 2022-07-27, NASA and the European Space Agency revised their Mars Sample Return plans to remove a fetch rover and its lander and to incorporate helicopters modeled on Ingenuity as replacements.
The ESA-funded study will evaluate use cases, market segments, and technical aspects of future SATCOM systems comprised of networks that span GEO, MEO, LEO, High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS), and other orbital types.
ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter is planned to collect the sample package from Mars orbit and return it to Earth in 2033.
The European Space Agency selected Viasat UK Ltd. to conduct a multi-layered SATCOM study.
The ESA-funded study could offer the United Kingdom, European, and allied nations guidance on pathways toward developing resilient multi-layered SATCOM capabilities.
The ESA-funded study focuses on evaluating use cases, market segments, and technical aspects of future multi-layered SATCOM systems comprised of networks spanning GEO, MEO, LEO, HAPS, and other orbital types.
The European Space Agency’s Navigation Program (NAVISP) was created to support innovation and competitiveness in the European position, navigation and timing (PNT) landscape.
The International Space Station was launched in 1998 as a joint effort by Russian, American, Japanese, Canadian, and European space agencies.
Viasat expects to complete its study for the European Space Agency in the second quarter of 2023.
On 2022-07-26, Viasat UK Ltd. was selected by the European Space Agency to conduct a multi-layered Satellite Communication (SATCOM) study.
Viasat did not disclose the amount of funding it will receive from the European Space Agency for the study.
The European Space Agency’s goal for Vega-C is to support the same or greater mission objectives as the original Vega at a reduced cost.
The Space Alliance is working as part of an international team, including several British companies, to create communications and navigation services on the Moon for the European Space Agency’s Moonlight project.
Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ signed a study contract with the European Space Agency to pave the way for multi-mission smallsats to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit.