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 Union Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) selected Arianespace to launch four new Galileo satellites.
An ESA spacecraft performed a debris avoidance maneuver to dodge a Starlink satellite in 2019.
ESA is considering postponing the decision point on UK participation until the missions’ critical design reviews and could push that date into 2024 to seek the 750,000,000 EUR.
Without an agreement on UK participation and funding, the Copernicus program faces a 750,000,000 EUR funding shortfall that could jeopardize work on six new Earth science missions approved at ESA’s 2019 ministerial meeting.
ESA awarded contracts for the six Copernicus Earth science missions in July 2020.
The European Space Agency and GomSpace A/S signed a contract to design and develop a Large Deployable Reflectarray Antenna for future small Earth observation satellites.
The European Space Agency provided a General Support Technology Programme grant to support Satellite Vu’s satellites and applications development.
ESA contracted half a year of operation for RadCube to complete the In-Orbit Demonstration mission objectives.
Helix Geospace received grant funding from the European Space Agency for advanced antenna development.
NASA and the European Space Agency confirmed the new James Webb Space Telescope launch date on 2021-12-18 after the observatory’s encapsulation was complete.
In 2021 UP42 joined Airbus, the European Space Agency, the European Commission, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in sponsoring Earth Observation Challenges for the Copernicus Masters.
Helix Geospace received grant funding from the European Space Agency for advanced antenna development.
As of 2021-12-13, Arianespace and the European Space Agency were scheduling the James Webb Space Telescope launch for 2021-12-22.
In 2019 NanoAvionics received a €10 million grant from the EU Horizon 2020 program and ESA to develop and launch the initial stage of a Global Internet of Things (GIoT) nanosatellite constellation.
The University of Surrey will test INSTANT0.005 kg links to the European Space Agency ECSAT hub.
NanoAvionics received a €1 million grant from the European Space Agency in 2024 to develop new technologies for small satellite propulsion systems.
Orbex is funded by BGF and Octopus Ventures alongside Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, Deimos Space, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program that seeks to extract water on the Moon.
Under the MOU, ispace Europe intends to provide over 15 kg of lander payload capacity or 5 kg of rover capacity to ESA on its lunar lander for missions from 2024 onwards.
ispace Europe and ArianeGroup sought a decision from the European Space Agency by Summer 2022 regarding their candidacy to transport ESA payloads to the Moon.