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 proposed European Space Launcher Alliance would work cooperatively with companies and with the European Space Agency on developing a long-term roadmap for launch vehicle development.
Webb launched from the European Space Agency’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 2021-12-25 while stowed inside an Ariane 5 rocket.
Further testing of the astronaut candidates will produce a few tens of finalists from which ESA will select four to six astronauts by the end of the year.
ESA completed the first stage of its 2022 astronaut selection by reviewing 23,307 applications and reducing the candidate pool to 1,362 people.
ESA received 287 applications from para-astronaut candidates and selected 29 of those applicants for further tests.
The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are 1,000,000 objects in orbit between greater than 0.01 m and 0.1 m.
The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are 36,500 objects in orbit greater than 0.1 m.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for the PROSPECT program to seek extraction of water on the Moon.
Artemis 4 will deliver the I-Hab habitat module, developed by the European Space Agency and JAXA, to the Gateway.
The SpaceDataHighway was developed with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA).
LuxSpace is developing a flexible microsatellite platform called Triton-X under a contract with the European Space Agency’s ARTES programme.
The SpaceDataHighway together with the ColKa terminal provides ESA with direct and sovereign access to the International Space Station.
Airbus’ SpaceDataHighway was developed with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide broadband connectivity services between the International Space Station and the Earth.
ESA would be ready to launch Sentinel-1C at any time after the October flight acceptance review if the Sentinel-1B investigation does not require design changes to Sentinel-1C.
The European Defence Agency was tasked with coordinating GOVSATCOM with participating Member States, the European Commission, and the European Space Agency.
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on an Ariane 5 launcher from the European Space Agency’s spaceport in French Guiana.
Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, supports continuing ESA participation on the International Space Station until 2030 and will submit a formal proposal to ESA member states to do so.
The European Space Agency proposed development of a large cargo lunar lander to support Artemis missions that would be launched on Ariane 6.
The European Space Agency awarded ClearSpace a $104,000,000 contract to launch a mission to remove a debris object from orbit in 2025.
The EUSPA order follows ESA’s order for the launch of four Galileo satellites in October 2021 and will complete the deployment of first-generation Galileo satellites.