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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A OneWeb-led group received 32 million British pounds in funding from the UK Space Agency through ESA’s Sunrise program to launch a beam-hopping satellite in 2022.
The £2.5 million award to Astroscale UK forms part of a larger beam-hopping satellite programme totalling over £32 million granted by the UK Space Agency via the European Space Agency’s Sunrise Programme.
The European Space Agency awarded contracts on 2021-05-20 to two European consortia to begin concept studies of lunar satellite systems providing communications and navigation services.
ESA awarded the 2021-05-20 contracts to consortia led by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Telespazio to begin studies for the agency’s Moonlight initiative.
The Moonlight concept studies will run for 12 to 18 months and conclude in time for ESA to seek funding for later phases at its next ministerial meeting in late 2022.
RHEA Systems SA and SatADSL signed a memorandum of understanding to provide a Secured PSS capability based on the BESecured PSS project being created for ESA.
The European Space Agency’s Space Rider mission seeks to provide Europe with an independent, affordable, and reusable space transport vehicle to low Earth orbit that is capable of returning after putting its payload in orbit.
Orolia has been selected by the European Commission and the European Space Agency to provide the core GNSS simulation engine for the Galileo Second Generation RF Constellation Simulator (G0.002 kg RFCS).
Orolia will work with ESA, GMV, and Tecnobit to help develop the next generation European Galileo constellation.
The European Space Agency awarded ArianeGroup a €135 million contract to continue development of Prometheus reusable engine demonstrators.
ESA’s Mars Express HRSC and OMEGA instruments provided data and expertise to support characterization and selection of the Tianwen-1 landing sites.
The World Climate Research Programme selected the European Space Agency to host the international project office for CMIP.
The European Space Agency will host a new international project office dedicated to supporting the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project at its European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK.
Holger Krag, head of the Space Safety Programme Office at the European Space Agency, reports that an average mass of about 100,000 kg reenters in an uncontrolled way through 50–60 individual events per year.
The German Government and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) awarded Isar Aerospace an 11,000,000 EUR contract through the C-STS program managed by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Isar Aerospace received a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11,000,000 EUR from the European Space Agency’s Boost! program.
DLR funded the microlauncher competition through 25,000,000 EUR that Germany pledged to ESA’s Boost! program at the Space19+ ministerial council meeting in Seville in November 2019.
ESA will review Isar Aerospace’s formal service proposal and enter into negotiations before signing a launch contract and awarding 11,000,000 EUR in development funding.
DLR selected Isar Aerospace on 2021-04-30 to receive a DLR letter of support required to submit a formal service proposal to ESA for the first 11 million-euro award.
Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and HyImpulse Technologies each received 500,000 EUR in ESA Boost! funding in November to fund specific development goals.