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 aim of the Themis project is to demonstrate Europe’s technological capacity in reusability to enable ESA member states by 2022 to determine the range of launchers suited to Europe’s needs around 2030.
ArianeGroup received a €33 million contract from the European Space Agency to begin the first development phase for the Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator.
WORK Microwave will assist the European Space Agency with deploying the Ka-band converters for critical missions.
NASA and the European Space Agency assigned NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the SpaceX Crew-3 mission on 2020-12-14.
The Crew-2 mission expected to launch in the spring of 2021 will fly two NASA astronauts, one ESA astronaut, and one JAXA astronaut.
WORK Microwave delivered the first set of Ka-band up- and downconverters to the European Space Agency’s European Space Operations Center for deep space antennas.
The European Space Agency finalized a €167 million contract with Thales Alenia Space Italy and Avio on 2020-12-09 in Rome to deliver Space Rider.
Isar Aerospace is one of three German launch startups to receive a 500,000 EUR grant from the European Space Agency to support small launch vehicle development alongside HyImpulse and Rocket Factory Augsberg.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for the PROSPECT program to seek extraction of water on the Moon.
Integrasys was awarded a €1.5 million project by the European Space Agency for interference cancellation and removal technology.
Integrasys has been awarded a €1.5 million European Space Agency project for Interference Cancellation and Removal Technology.
The CLEANRF activity is funded via Element 2 of ESA’s General Support Technology Program (GSTP).
The Copernicus program is led by the European Commission with the European Space Agency coordinating and managing the space component.
Thales Alenia Space signed a €482 million contract with the European Space Agency to build the Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L).
The European Space Agency finalized an 86,000,000 EUR contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to complete the world’s first space debris removal mission.
ESA signed a contract with ClearSpace on 2020-11-13 to complete the safe deorbiting of a payload adapter launched aboard the second flight of the Arianespace Vega rocket in 2013.
ESA will supply key technology for the ClearSpace-1 mission developed by the agency’s Clean Space initiative as part of its Active Debris Removal/In-Orbit Servicing project.
The 86,000,000 EUR supplied by ESA will be supplemented with an additional 24,000,000 EUR that ClearSpace is raising from commercial investors.
RUAG Space developed the Lynx Single Board Computer in Gothenburg, Sweden with support from a contract under the European Space Agency’s ARTES program.
ViaLite was selected to provide the long-distance link between the European Space Agency Redu teleport in Belgium and the SES site in Luxembourg.