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’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has been delayed to the next launch opportunity in 2022.
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos delayed the ExoMars rover mission to 2022 because there was not enough time to qualify the spacecraft’s avionics and parachutes.
The European Space Agency (ESA) funded the project to develop a large deployable antenna reflector for small satellites.
Selected companies for ESA’s COVID-19 project will have access to 2,500,000 EUR in funding and free satellite capacity as part of the project.
The European Space Agency is soliciting proposals for a project called "Space in response to COVID-19 outbreak" in cooperation with the Italian government.
Companies are required to submit an initial outline proposal for ESA’s COVID-19 project by 2020-04-20, with selected companies invited within a week to submit a complete proposal due by 2020-05-14.
The European Space Agency put four of its science missions into temporary standby on 2020-03-24 to reduce the number of controllers needed at its European Space Operations Centre.
A test-firing of Vega E’s methane engine 3D-printed thrust chamber was completed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and reported by the European Space Agency on 2020-03-03.
The European Space Agency’s 2019 ministerial conference allocated 490,000,000 EUR toward Avio programs.
Rolf Densing, director of operations at ESA, prioritizes the health of the workforce and ESA will reduce activity on some scientific missions, especially interplanetary spacecraft that require the highest number of personnel on site.
On 2020-03-24, the European Space Agency suspended regular operations of four missions, including one recently launched spacecraft, to reduce staffing needs during the coronavirus pandemic.
NASA and ESA plan an ESA-led orbiter with a NASA sample collection payload to capture the Mars samples in orbit and return them to Earth, with both sample-return missions slated to launch in 2026 and return samples in 2031.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will launch the Perseverance rover to Mars and will cache samples for return by a pair of future missions planned for launch in 2026 in cooperation with the European Space Agency.
NASA spent $2,800,000 supporting ESA’s Mars Express orbiter mission in fiscal year 2019 and plans to end NASA support for Mars Express by the summer following a poor showing in a senior review of extended missions.
The European Space Agency has patented a family of signal compression standards developed using its Proba-2 microsatellite.
NASA pulled out of the ExoMars mission in 2012 after committing to the mission with ESA in 2009 due to budget cuts.
Bartolomeo will be operated by Airbus as a commercial platform in cooperation with the European Space Agency.
Wu Shufan worked at the European Space Agency’s European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) prior to joining MinoSpace.
ESA Director General Jan Woerner and Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin instructed inspectors general and program chiefs to submit an updated plan and schedule covering remaining activities necessary for authorization to launch ExoMars 2020.
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos delayed ExoMars 2020 high altitude parachute drop tests to late March 2020.