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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Louis Bakienon, Director of the ASECNA SBAS Program, signed an international cooperation agreement with Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, at ESA’s offices in Paris.
ASECNA and ESA signed an agreement to deploy a Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS) across a service region of more than 16.5 million sq. km.
The James Webb Space Telescope is already collecting early release observations that will be unveiled on 2022-07-12 by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
SIRAL-2 is a Ku-band only altimeter on ESA’s CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer mission.
Airbus was awarded a €160 million contract for the European Space Agency’s FORUM satellite.
Under the ESA–SWISSto12 Partnership contract, SWISSto12 will deliver a HummingSat satellite to an operator acting as the anchor commercial end-customer with a planned launch date in 2025.
Telespazio helped the European Space Agency move the Artemis (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission) satellite to its intended orbit in 2003 by firing the onboard electric thrusters to raise its orbit after a launch failure injected the satellite into the wrong orbit.
The payload selection competition is part of an €11 million award Isar Aerospace received from DLR and the European Space Agency in April 2021.
Milani will be the first deep-space small satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) and will also be the first small satellite to orbit an asteroid.
ESA, Inmarsat, and more than 30 partners invested over €50 million to develop the Iris program.
Tyvak International is coordinating a team of 12 entities for the Milani mission as the prime contractor for the European Space Agency.
QuadSAT was awarded an additional 500,000 EUR by the European Space Agency under the ARTES Core Competitiveness program to enter a product phase development project.
Joakim Espeland, CEO of QuadSAT, supports collaborating with ESA to further develop and demonstrate QuadSAT’s product capabilities and validate its efficacy within the satcom ecosystem.
Under a revised schedule, ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter would launch in 2027 and return samples to Earth in 2033.
ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness program provides funding, multi-disciplinary expertise, business knowledge, and opportunities to help European and Canadian industry develop satcom products, services, and systems.
QuadSAT worked with teams from ESA’s ESOC mission control center to complete a measurement campaign of large antennas at Kiruna Earth Station.
Including a previous 250,000-euro funding round with ESA, Quadsat has raised about $5,000,000 in total.
In March, Quadsat worked alongside ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) to test antennas as large as 15 m in Sweden.
NASA and the European Space Agency signed cooperative agreements on 2023-06-15.
The Framework Agreement builds upon a joint statement of intent that NASA and ESA signed in July 2021.