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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ESA provided ground station support for China’s Mars Tianwen-1 mission.
Josef Aschbacher became Director General of the European Space Agency on 2021-03-01.
ESA and CNSA are working together on the Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission planned for launch in 2023.
The European Space Agency selected ICEYE as a data provider under its Earthnet Third Party Mission program in 2020 and sponsored the cost of access to ICEYE’s SAR data for earth observation and research application development.
Teledyne e2v, part of the Teledyne Imaging Group and Teledyne Technologies [NYSE:TDY], will supply image sensors and detectors to a grouped proposal endorsed by the European Space Agency’s industrial policy committee to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space.
The next round of the German micro-launcher competition will award a launch contract worth €11,000,000 for institutional payloads to be selected by DLR and ESA.
Rocket Factory Augsburg won the first round of the German micro-launcher competition run by the German Space Agency DLR and received a letter of support to obtain €500,000 of funding within ESA’s Boost! program.
All applications for the ESA 2021 astronaut selection and the Parastronaut Feasibility Study had to be submitted via the ESA Careers website within the 2021-03-31 to 2021-05-28 application period.
Leaf Space has partnered with more than 15 customers, including Astrocast, D-Orbit, and the European Space Agency, to increase data performance and availability while lowering costs and decreasing latency.
The European Space Agency opened applications for its 2021 astronaut selection.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to launch to the station on Crew-2.
The Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser system is an ESA product developed by Italy’s Avio under ESA leadership and produced by SAB Aerospace s.r.o. of the Czech Republic.
The two support contracts were awarded on 2021-03-24 under Boost!, an ESA program to foster new commercial space transportation services.
The European Space Agency asked its member nations for an additional €230 million ($268,000,000) in funding for Ariane 6 development.
The European Space Agency awarded Orbex €7.45 million through its Boost! Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support (C-STS) program.
Leaf Space has partnered with over 15 customers including Astrocast, D-Orbit, and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The European Space Agency awarded UK-based launch startups Orbex and Skyrora a combined €10.45 million to support development of competing microlaunchers.
Leaf Space offers ground segment services to the European Space Agency.
Open Cosmos has invested more than £4 million in research and development with leveraged support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency through the ARTES Partnership Project’s Pioneer program.
Open Cosmos has 10 missions under development, including the MANTIS mission in partnership with ESA-Incubed and the UK Space Agency, which aims to provide high-resolution imagery and IOD6 in partnership with the Satellite Applications Catapult.