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 has signed exploration-program contracts worth 1,300,000,000 EUR that ESA expects will grow to 2,900,000,000 EUR by the end of the following year.
ESA awarded two contracts to Thales Alenia Space for elements of the NASA-led lunar Gateway.
SpaceX Crew-2 is scheduled to launch in spring 2021 with astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and the European Space Agency.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space won contracts valued at more than $1,000,000,000 with ESA and the UK in the summer prior to The Space Report 2020 Q3.
The "SBAS for Africa & Indian Ocean" program is established on the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) acting under delegation of the European Commission.
The European Space Agency signed a €129.4-million contract with German company OHB for the detailed design, manufacturing, and testing of the HERA mission.
The Sentinel-1 mission is a constellation of C-band synthetic aperture radar satellites operated by the European Space Agency that have been launched since 2014.
The European Space Agency selected Airbus to develop and build the Copernicus polar ice and snow topography mission CRISTAL.
The Airbus and Eutelsat consortia will study the pros and cons of large geostationary satellites, smaller low Earth orbit satellites, satellite ground systems, and other topics for the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency signed a 300-million-euro contract with Airbus Defence and Space on 2020-09-21 to develop the Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) satellite for the European Union’s Copernicus program.
The CRISTAL prime contract was the second Copernicus deal that ESA formalized after announcing contractor selections for all six missions on 2020-07-01.
The European Space Agency awarded study contracts to Airbus and Eutelsat consortia to identify solutions and disruptive technologies to help European and Canadian satellite communications companies succeed.
ESA signed a 445-million-euro contract with Germany’s OHB Space Systems on 2020-07-31 to build a pair of satellites for the Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission.
CREODIAS is one of five DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) platforms built and operated by CloudFerro on behalf of the European Space Agency under the Copernicus Programme.
Exotrail signed two contracts with the European Space Agency for its smallsat electric propulsion technology.
Exotrail's second contract with the European Space Agency requires delivery of a propulsion system in 2021 followed by testing at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands.
The European Space Agency’s Venus Express orbiter was launched in 2005.
Hylas-3 is a hosted payload with eight steerable beams that launched in mid-2019 as part of Airbus and the European Space Agency’s EDRS-C satellite.
OHB will lead a team of companies from 17 ESA member states to complete the Hera spacecraft.
The European Space Agency finalized a 129,400,000 EUR contract with German satellite manufacturer OHB on 2020-09-15 to build the Hera asteroid spacecraft.