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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The European Space Agency selected Astroscale Ltd. to lead a collision avoidance study that is part of the CREAM activities in ESA’s Space Safety Program.
ESA was collaborating with Roscosmos on the ExoMars mission, which was scheduled for launch in September 2022 on a Proton rocket and would deliver the Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars.
ESA planned to assess appropriate launch services for European institutional payloads based on launch systems currently in operation and the upcoming Vega-C and Ariane 6.
ESA renamed its upcoming space weather mission from Lagrange to ESA Vigil on 2022-02-10.
In 2009, the European Space Agency launched a program for the development of space debris tracking technology.
Arianespace has been strongly committed to Ariane 6 and Vega C since ESA’s 2014 Ministerial Conference in Luxembourg for European institutional and global commercial markets.
Both picoRTU and NANOhpm-obc have been developed jointly under the ESA General Support and Technology Programme based on identified market needs.
The European Space Agency assessed on 2022-02-28 that its ExoMars mission is very unlikely to launch in September because of sanctions on Russia and the wider context of its invasion of Ukraine.
The European Space Agency on 2022-02-28 indicated that a 2022-09-01 launch of the ExoMars mission is very unlikely due to sanctions on Russia.
ExoMars was previously scheduled to launch in mid-2020 before ESA delayed the mission to a September 2022 launch window.
The European Space Agency planned to launch the EarthCARE Earth science mission on a Soyuz in 2023 in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The European Space Agency planned to launch the Euclid infrared space telescope on a Soyuz in 2023.
Jan Woerner played a key role in developing and implementing the European Space Agency Space Situational Awareness program.
Jan Woerner was head of the German delegation to the European Space Agency from 2007 to 2015.
The only major non-U.S. component of the Artemis 1 vehicle is the Orion service module provided by the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellites produced 13 clear images per UK farm on average in 2021, according to analysis by Origin Digital.
Christoph Aubrecht is the Program Coordinator for Global Development Assistance at the European Space Agency in Italy.
The European Space Agency’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) does not list the 2,800-kilogram rocket stage 2014-065B as having reentered the atmosphere.
ESA does not have a formal plan for operations in low Earth orbit after the International Space Station is retired in 2030.
ESA selected Thales Alenia Space in 2020 to design and build the two CHIME environmental monitoring satellites with Leonardo contributing to the payload.