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 plans to continue efforts to recover the Sentinel-1B payload until it is certain the satellite cannot be returned to service while also planning to launch a replacement, Sentinel-1C, in the first half of 2023.
ESA established a Scale-up initiative to support ESA commercialization initiatives as part of Agenda 2025.
ESA created a Civil Security from Space initiative to examine how space-based Earth observation, telecommunications, and navigation can support civil security needs.
ESA will fly another version of the Prospect mass spectrometer instrument on the joint Indian-Japanese lunar rover mission LUPEX under an agreement between ESA and JAXA signed 2022-04-04.
The European Space Agency formally suspended cooperation with Russia on the ExoMars mission and postponed a launch of an ESA-built rover that had been scheduled for September.
Arianespace was awarded a launch contract by the European Space Agency on behalf of the European Commission to launch Sentinel-1C.
ESA planned Sentinel-1C to be ready for launch as soon as October, although it was scheduled to launch in the middle of 2023.
Arianespace won a contract from the European Space Agency to launch Sentinel-1C in the first half of 2023 and the terms of the contract were not disclosed.
The European Space Agency will launch the Sentinel-1C radar imaging satellite on a Vega C rocket in 2023.
The ExoMars European-built rover is nearly complete and at the time of ESA’s decision to suspend work with Russia was being prepared to ship to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
ESA is considering providing satellite data to Ukraine to support damage assessments and agriculture.
ESA halted plans to launch the ExoMars mission on 2022-03-17 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ESA may use non-European backup launch vehicles for a limited period to launch payloads that can’t immediately be assigned to Ariane 6.
ESA is studying ways to launch the stranded satellites using Ariane 6 and Vega C launch vehicles, both scheduled to make their inaugural launches 2022.
Arianespace was awarded a launch contract by the European Space Agency on behalf of the European Commission to launch Sentinel-1C.
The European Space Agency will fund the AAC Hyperion and NLR onboard AI project with EUR 0.41 million (approx. SEK 4.2 million).
Ariane 6’s incremental development is funded and managed by the European Space Agency and implemented by ArianeGroup.
TD-2’s 10-meter-per-pixel hyperspectral resolution exceeds the 30-meter-per-pixel hyperspectral satellites launched by NASA, ESA, and ISRO.
NanoAvionics established the GIoT project with consortium partners KSAT and Antwerp Space after receiving dedicated funding from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020, ESA’s ARTES, and private investments.
ESA and a European industrial partner are helping to build the Lunar Pathfinder to provide initial lunar communications services to early missions and to demonstrate a complete lunar navigation in-orbit capability.