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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Thales Alenia Space secured the ESA funds in partnership with QinetiQ, a British aerospace company planning to provide altitude and orbit control systems and other capabilities for the Skimsat platform.
The European Space Agency awarded funding to develop a demonstrator for Skimsat, a small satellite platform designed to operate in very low Earth orbit.
Skyrora won a $3,100,000 Boost! award from ESA in 2021 to support engine testing.
Thales Alenia Space secured €2.3 million in ESA funding to advance its design of a satellite capable of operating below 300 km.
On 2022-07-12 Dmitry Rogozin planned to instruct cosmonauts on the ISS to stop using the European robotic arm on the Nauka module in retaliation for the European Space Agency terminating cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars mission.
The Vega C development program is managed by the European Space Agency and associates 12 ESA Member States.
A planned spacewalk from the Russian segment of the ISS by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was scheduled for 2024-07-21, with a major purpose to work on the European robotic arm.
The European Space Agency formally terminated cooperation with Russia on the ExoMars mission on 2024-07-12.
On 2022-07-12, the European Space Agency transferred the Ariane 6 central core, comprising its core stage and upper stage, to a launchpad in Kourou for combined tests ahead of a maiden launch next year.
The ESA 0.005 kg/0.006 kg Hub at the ESA/ECSAT Harwell site was connected through OneWeb satellites using a super-flat advanced antenna made by SatixFy UK for mobility services.
The demonstration at ESA/ECSAT in Harwell on 2022-06-28 used a super-compact satellite terminal mounted on a car.
The ESA–SWISSto12 partnership contract calls for SWISSto12 to deliver a HummingSat satellite to an operator acting as the anchor commercial end-customer with a planned launch date in 2025.
SatixFy partnered with OneWeb under the ESA Sunrise Partnership Project with support from the UK Space Agency to develop a compact electronically steered multi-beam array suitable for mobility services over both LEO and GEO satellites simultaneously.
On 2022-06-28, a demonstration at the ESA/ECSAT facilities in Harwell achieved the first-ever 0.005 kg backhaul communications connected to a LEO satellite constellation using a compact electronic antenna powered by SatixFy to connect to a OneWeb LEO constellation.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KONGSBERG) signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to initiate a feasibility study on building a national satellite infrastructure for ocean surveillance.
The first CREAM activity's development is based on GMV’s autoca autonomous collision avoidance system, developed for ESA in the frame of the ARTES program and accepted in March 2022.
ESA awarded QuadSAT €500,000 under the ARTES Core Competitiveness program to enter a product phase development project.
QuadSAT worked alongside teams from ESA’s ESOC mission control center to complete a measurement campaign of large antennas at Kiruna Earth Station.
The SPP II missions include the Einstein Probe, the Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) which launched in 2020, the Advanced space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) launching 2022, and the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) in collaboration with the European Space Agency.
ESA will provide technical support to ASECNA based on Europe’s EGNOS technology and using the Galileo satellites.