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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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.
ispace Europe and ArianeGroup were selected by the European Space Agency to participate in a pilot phase to establish commercial partnerships in Europe for lunar transportation and exploration.
Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ispace Europe and ArianeGroup on 2021-11-24.
Spire Global, Inc. was awarded a contract under the European Space Agency’s Navigation Innovation and Support Program (NAVISP) Element 2 funded by the UK Space Agency.
NASA and ESA completed fueling the James Webb Space Telescope with hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide on 2021-12-06.
The contract between ESA and Airbus for the Ariel mission is valued at around 200,000,000 EUR.
Airbus will provide expertise and support to ESA for the development of the Ariel payload module.
The European Space Agency signed a contract with Airbus to build the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) mission.
GomSpace A/S and the European Space Agency signed a contract for the ESA SCOUT Earth Observation mission to be launched in 2024.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is the design authority for Galileo and is responsible for overseeing its development and procuring satellites and the ground segment.
Lemu1 uses geospatial data supported by satellites from NASA and ESA together with ethical AI to analyze and evaluate information about ecosystems.
Orbex is funded by the UK venture capital funds BGF and Octopus Ventures alongside Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
ESA is providing support, experience, and technical support to SWISSto12 as part of the Partnership Project to bring the micro-geostationary product to the commercial market.
The ESA-led Launch Readiness Review confirmed that the first two satellites in the final batch of 12 Galileo first-generation satellites were ready for launch, contingent on no external circumstances arising before the night of 1–2 December.
SWISSto12 will develop and build a new micro-geostationary satellite product line and its first protoflight model under a Partnership Project with the European Space Agency (ESA).
Galileo satellites 27 and 28 are scheduled to be launched for the European Space Agency (ESA) by a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2021-12-02 at 01:31 CET (2021-12-01 at 21:31:27 local Kourou time).