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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ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency do not expect Ariane 6 to launch until at least the second half of 2021.
Avio is working to finalize the pending ESA contracts and expects a backlog between 650 million and 680,000,000 EUR by the end of 2020.
QuadSAT completed work for the European Space Agency supporting the development of advanced satellite communication products and services.
A failure review team that included ESA and the space agencies and militaries of France and Italy produced 20 recommendations following the Zefiro-23 investigation.
ESA planned the smallsat Vega SSMS mission in 2017 for a 2018 launch but the manifest slipped to the second half of 2019 because not all customers were ready.
Jeanette Epps was scheduled to launch in mid-2018 on a Soyuz spacecraft with Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos.
The European Space Agency began testing space-based VDES in 2017 with Norway’s Norsat-2 smallsat.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the PROSPECT Science Team for a program that seeks to extract water on the Moon.
The overall Mars Sample Return effort will likely cost more than $7,000,000,000 combined between NASA and the European Space Agency.
ESA will initially order two satellites apiece from each selected second-generation Galileo provider.
The ESA-led competition to select second-generation Galileo suppliers is arranged on behalf of the European Commission and pits OHB against Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space.
ESA had previously intended to procure a transition batch of upgraded Galileo satellites but chose to move directly from the first generation to the second generation and spread out launches for the remaining 12 first-generation satellites OHB is building.
The European Space Agency is preparing to select two companies to build the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites under contracts to be signed in early 2021.
OHB is building the final 12 Galileo first-generation satellites under ESA’s "Batch 3," which will sustain the constellation until the second-generation satellites are in orbit.
Eutelsat Quantum was ordered in 2015 as part of a public-private partnership partly funded through the European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program.
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing two later missions to return Perseverance’s cached samples to Earth with launches planned in 2026.
In 2019 ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program to extract water on the Moon.
Sateliot signed an unfunded memorandum of understanding with the European Space Agency in January to collaborate on integrating space and terrestrial 0.005 kg solutions.
ESA plans to award a contract to Airbus Defence and Space of France to build the Earth Return Orbiter.
NASA and the European Space Agency expect to spend at least $7,000,000,000 to collect samples of Mars and return them to Earth.