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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CNES proposed a schedule with a two-year design study beginning in 2022 at the next ESA ministerial meeting, a final decision to proceed in 2024, a first uncrewed test flight in 2028, and a first crewed flight in 2030.
The European Space Agency plans to select up to 20 reserve astronauts who could be called up for missions of opportunity.
Pilot debris-removal projects funded by the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have costs exceeding $1,000,000 per kilogram.
The ESA Council unanimously approved the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement on 2021-06-16.
The European Commission and the European Space Agency signed the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) in a ceremony 2021-06-22 in Brussels.
ESA, working with prime contractor ArianeGroup and the French space agency CNES, has established an independent assessment of the schedule for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
ESA announced in October 2020 that Ariane 6’s first flight, once planned for 2020, had slipped to the second quarter of 2022.
The European Space Agency, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Department of Defense have awarded contracts to Hydrosat.
The European Space Agency received a letter of invitation to join the International Lunar Research Station co-signed by Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the China National Space Administration.
The ESA Council unanimously approved the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement during its two-day meeting concluded on 2021-06-16.
Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the China National Space Administration co-signed a letter inviting the European Space Agency to join the International Lunar Research Station.
e-GEOS has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the Pomerium project.
One of ESA Agenda 2025's pivotal aims is to transform Earth Observation data into useful information through Artificial Intelligence techniques and high-performance computing.
In 2019, ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for the PROSPECT program to extract water on the Moon.
The Pomerium project is co-financed by ESA and ASI as part of the Space for L’ART initiative of the ARTESBASS program.
The United Kingdom is the leading contributor to the European Space Agency’s Space Safety programme, which provides collaboration and funding opportunities for UK scientists and industry.
The European Space Agency estimates there are over 128 million debris objects larger than 0.001 m in space, including defunct satellites and upper stage rockets.
The infrared space observatory SPICA, planned to fly in cooperation with JAXA, was dropped from ESA M5 consideration in October 2020 because of cost issues.
Iceye was approved on 2021-06-10 for inclusion in ESA’s Earthnet Program Third Party Missions (TPM) data portfolio.
The European Space Agency will offer researchers free access to Iceye’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery including the ability to task Iceye satellites.