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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Nanoracks equipped the International Space Station with the Bishop Airlock in cooperation with NASA, the European Space Agency, and industry partners.
Galileo is 100% financed by the European Union with the European Space Agency acting as the implementing agency.
Galileo is financed 100% by the European Union with the European Space Agency as the implementing agency.
The ESA Clean Space team began initial plasma wind tunnel testing in 2015 on materials used in satellite construction, including aluminum titanium alloy and stainless steel.
The European Space Agency launched the Clean Space initiative in 2012 to consider the environmental impact of the agency’s missions across their entire life cycle.
ESA awarded LusoSpace a contract in early 2019 under the Generic Support Technology Program with a small contribution from ESA’s Earth Observation Program to qualify a larger magnetorquer and produce a new line of components.
The European Space Agency awarded Spacebel a contract to supply the payload data ground segment for the Altius stratosphere observation mission.
LusoSpace is a Portuguese space technology company that supplied the magnetorquer tested by ESA Clean Space.
The European Space Agency’s expected contribution to Mars Sample Return is 1,500,000,000 EUR (about $1,850,000,000).
The Mars Sample Return program includes a NASA-led sample return lander with a rover provided by the European Space Agency.
An ESA-provided fetch rover would collect samples cached by the Mars 2020 mission.
The Mars Sample Return program includes an ESA-led orbiter with a sample collection system provided by NASA.
The European Space Agency completed a joint investigation with Arianespace on 2020-12-18 into the 2020-11-16 failure of Vega mission VV17.
The ESA Council backed plans to solicit applications for a new class of astronauts starting in the first quarter of 2021.
Josef Aschbacher will release a document titled "ESA Agenda 2025" shortly after taking office to outline his vision and priorities.
The Vega VV17 mission was carrying two payloads: SEOSAT-Ingenio for the European Space Agency (ESA) and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES).
Arianespace and ESA set up an Independent Enquiry Commission (IEC) following the launch failure.
The ESA Council selected Josef Aschbacher to be director general of the European Space Agency effective at the end of June 2021 for a four-year term.
A task force led by ESA and Arianespace began implementing the roadmap proposed by the IEC in response to the Vega VV17 mission loss.
Josef Aschbacher's top priorities as ESA director general include improving the agency’s relationship with the European Union and supporting commercial space activities in Europe.