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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On 2022-03-17, the European Space Agency suspended cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars mission in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A 2028 ExoMars launch would require descent engines similar in size to those produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne for NASA Mars missions such as Curiosity and Perseverance because ESA lacks European descent engines of the right size for ExoMars.
Roscosmos provided the landing platform for the ESA-built Rosalind Franklin rover.
ispace EU was selected together with ArianeGroup by the European Space Agency to participate in a pilot phase aiming to establish commercial partnerships in Europe for lunar transportation and exploration.
The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are roughly 36,000 objects in space greater than 0.1 m in size.
The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are around one million objects in space between 1 and 0.1 m in size.
The Crew-4 astronauts — NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA’s Samantha Cristoforetti — will start work to take over station operations from the Crew-3 astronauts.
Josef Aschbacher, director general of ESA, does not expect the war in Ukraine to affect ESA’s plans to seek an ISS extension from 2024 to 2030.
Crew-4 will deliver Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watson of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency to the International Space Station.
Global Change Monitoring ingests the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 SAR satellite data to provide automated change detection over time across vast regions of interest.
Kuva Space has provided commercial satellites to global partners through collaborations with the European Space Agency.
Septentrio was one of the first to market with the OSNMA advanced security feature due to the expertise gained during its collaboration with ESA.
The decadal survey recommends continued later phases of Mars Sample Return, which involve missions jointly developed with the European Space Agency to launch collected samples into Mars orbit and return them to Earth in the early 2030s.
Septentrio has been working closely with ESA (European Space Agency) during the test phases of OSNMA deployment for the last two years.
Skyrora received £2.5 million in March 2021 in grant funding as part of the UK’s investment into the European Space Agency’s Boost! initiative to complete development of the Skyrora XL launch vehicle.
AstroAgency secured contract work from the European Space Agency’s network of UK Business Incubation Centres in the first quarter of 2022.
Capella’s Global Change Monitoring product is created by the Capella Console ingesting SAR data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 program.
The European Space Agency operates the Sentinel-1 SAR satellite program whose data Capella ingests for regional change detection.
The European Space Agency ended plans to cooperate with Roscosmos on the Luna-25 lander, the Luna-27 lander, and the Luna-26 orbiter.
ESA awarded study contracts in May 2021 to teams led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio to examine technical feasibility and business cases for the Moonlight program.