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 UK Space Agency invests around £90 million a year through its subscription to ESA’s ARTES programme to develop innovative technologies, services, and applications.
Open Cosmos has invested more than £4 million in research and development, leveraged with support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency through the ARTES Partnership Project; Pioneer programme, and has grown its team from five to 50 people.
The European Space Agency (ESA) provided support to SatixFy in the design of the chips used for the IFC terminal.
ESA’s Space Safety funding includes €12 million for the Active Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing (ADRIOS) initiative and €70 million for space weather observation and forecasting.
The United Kingdom has invested a total €95.5 million in the European Space Agency’s Space Safety program.
A research team working as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative produced the new above-ground biomass maps.
The European Space Agency estimates there are 3,600 working satellites in orbit and 28,200 debris objects.
During the spring of 2020, the European Space Agency supported research and development activities carried out by the European Data Cube Facility service.
ESA and GSA have commenced testing of GNSS signals.
Recent government initiatives like the Public-Private Partnership between Airbus and ESA's European Data Relay Services support the optical satcom industry.
The acquisition of Vitrociset’s Space BU allows Telespazio to expand engineering and operational services supporting the activities of the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency signed a €32 million contract with OHB Sweden to build a prototype satellite for the Arctic Weather Satellite mission.
ESA and GSA have commenced testing of the OSNMA authentication, which will continue in the coming months.
Thales Alenia Space signed a €772 million contract with the European Space Agency acting in the name and on behalf of the European Union represented by the European Commission to provide six satellites for the 2nd Generation Galileo constellation.
ESA provided funding in 2018 for a test of the NORCE Sentinel-1 avalanche detection method in Colorado in partnership with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
Norway began using synthetic aperture radar on ESA’s Sentinel-1 satellites to detect avalanches nationwide.
Under Dr Josef Aschbacher’s leadership, Europe developed an Earth observation programme that includes all Sentinel missions as part of the EU-led Copernicus programme, all meteorological missions for EUMETSAT, and the Earth Explorer, Scout, and phi-sat missions developed for the ESA Member States.
OQ Technology signed a €2 million contract with the European Space Agency as part of the Luxembourg National Space program LuxIMPULSE for the on-orbit pathfinder mission MACSAT.
The Eurostar Neo platform was developed under the European Space Agency Partnership Projects together with the French space agency CNES and with strong support from the UK Space Agency and other European agencies.
CGI has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency to develop a new wildfire mapping service that combines Earth Observation, Artificial Intelligence, and cloud computing.