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 awarded a 5,200,000 EUR contract to Open Cosmos to develop plans for a space weather monitoring constellation.
NanoMagSat was selected as an ESA Scout candidate for an initial feasibility consolidation phase in 2020.
The Sunrise Partnership Program was launched in 2019 between the European Space Agency and OneWeb to support advancement of next-generation technologies including artificial intelligence for satellite operations, new payload and user terminal technology, and research in active debris removal.
Members of the CUBE consortium will collaborate with the European Space Agency to establish a scientific pathfinder for future space weather observation activities and other ESA future activities.
ESA’s CryoSat mission, developed by Airbus, operated flawlessly for 12 years, well beyond its design lifetime.
Thales Alenia Space has worked with the European Space Agency and the European space industry since the start of the European Commission’s Copernicus program and plays a key role on 11 out of 12 Copernicus missions.
Airbus has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna).
A consortium led by OHB Sweden AB is developing a prototype for the European Space Agency’s Arctic Weather Satellite under a 32,500,000 EUR contract awarded last year.
The Design Booster program lasts 1.5 years and includes design reviews by ESA specialists who assist in identifying design improvements or issues.
The four Crew-3 astronauts from NASA and the European Space Agency assisted the Ax-1 private crew during the visit to the International Space Station.
Orbex is funded by BGF and Octopus Ventures, Heartcore Capital, the High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.
Global Plastic Watch uses remote sensing satellite imagery from the European Space Agency and a machine-learned model created in collaboration with Earthrise Media.
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite provided ultraviolet and X-ray measurements for the 1ES 1927+654 study.
The European Space Agency launched its Space for Business program with Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nova School of Business in Portugal, and St. Gallen University in Switzerland as the first international executive education program in space business.
Belgian-developed technology contributed to the Giotto mission and the Ariane launcher following the creation of ESA in May 1975.
The agreement between SES and ESA succeeds PACIS-1, which resulted in the development of SES’s REACH platform comprising geostationary satellites for governments and institutions.
The European Space Agency launched the Aeolus Doppler wind lidar mission in 2018.
SES’s non-geostationary MEO satellite network will be part of the GovSatCom-grade satellite communications platform developed with co-funding by the European Space Agency (ESA).
ExoMars was planned to launch in September on a Proton rocket under a partnership between Roscosmos and the European Space Agency.
A launch delay to 2028 would have ExoMars launching at the same time as the two landers for the revised Mars Sample Return campaign that NASA and ESA are jointly conducting.