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’s call for ideas on how to use a lasting lunar communications and navigation link is open until 2022-04-30.
Other missions in the Strategic Priority Program second phase include GECAM, ASO-S due to launch in 2022, and SMILE for which ESA recently shipped a module to China.
ESA suspended its partnership with Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is considering options that could delay ExoMars launch to at least 2026.
NASA and ESA agreed to split the Sample Retrieval Lander into two landers and to delay the launches of those landers to 2028.
Original plans called for launch of a NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander and an ESA-led Earth Return Orbiter in 2026.
The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, designed until 2022, was created to expand Ukrainian cooperation with the European Space Agency.
Ukraine’s State Space Agency presented a roadmap for accession to the European Space Agency and is working closely with the European Space Agency.
Synspective’s Land Displacement Monitoring (LDM) service monitored over 400 km2 of slope area in the upstream proximity of the Melamchi River using data gathered by the European Space Agency’s SAR satellite.
Synspective’s LDM service monitored over 400 square kilometers of slope area in the upstream proximity of the Melamchi River using data from the European Space Agency’s SAR satellite.
ESA is supporting development of the M10 upper stage engine for the Vega E variant, which is slated to make its first launch around 2025.
Flex has shipped initial units of Ball’s ESA subarrays and is supporting the ramp to production from its Austin manufacturing facility.
In 2020 Callisto was awarded a five-year contract to upgrade the European Space Agency’s deep space antennas with the latest generation Callisto cryogenic receivers.
Flex’s global supply-chain organization and experience manufacturing complex communications products are being leveraged to produce Ball’s ESA subarrays at an affordable price.
Celestia UK is collaborating with the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and commercial partners to develop compact, fully electronic multi-beam scanning gateway antennas with no moving parts.
SWISSto12 has developed commercial success in Europe and Israel with partners and customers such as Thales, Elbit, IAI, and the European Space Agency.
A contract signed between the European Space Agency and SWISSto12 will develop a small telecommunications satellite called HummingSat.
Josef Aschbacher, director general of ESA, expressed that the prospects for recovering Sentinel-1B do not look very good but that hope has not been abandoned.
ESA is exploring potential alternatives for the Vega C upper stage to mitigate the impact on future launches.
As of February 25, 2023, ESA has not yet identified a root cause for the anomaly affecting the main and backup power systems of Sentinel-1B's SAR payload.
ESA is continuing investigations into the cause of the Sentinel-1B satellite's problems for at least the next few weeks.