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 European Space Agency released a Technology Strategy report on 2019-10-31 ahead of the Space19+ ministerial conference.
ESA will seek 12,500,000,000 EUR from its 22 member states at the ministerial conference 2019-11-27-28 in Seville, Spain to fund its space programs for the next three years.
ArianeGroup seeks ESA funding to simplify the design and improve manufacturing processes for Ariane 6’s solid rocket boosters.
In May, ESA tasked ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace with developing a prototype carbon-composite upper stage that leads to the Innovative Carbon Ariane Upper Stage (Icarus) made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic.
ESA wants to increase Galileo position, navigation, and timing accuracy tenfold and make Galileo resilient against spoofing attacks by 2025.
ESA aims to have the technologies to achieve the stated telecom and remote sensing goals by 2023.
QinetiQ will build a hosting facility and experiment modules for ESA’s Heat Transfer Host 2 project at a new 3-million-euro clean room in Kruibeke, Belgium.
ESA’s Heat Transfer Host 2 experiment will launch to the International Space Station in the first half of 2023 and operate inside Europe’s Columbus laboratory module.
QinetiQ will use a newly expanded factory to build equipment for a European Space Agency heat transfer experiment under a 9,000,000 EUR contract.
QinetiQ received a 26,600,000 EUR ESA contract in 2017 for its International Berthing and Docking Mechanism.
A study contract OHB received from the European Space Agency in 2018 was not related to OHB’s current small launcher initiative.
Avio and an independent inquiry board with ESA, the French space agency, and the Italian space agency traced Vega’s 2019-07-15 failure to the Zefiro-23 second stage.
China approached the European Space Agency for mission support ahead of the launch of Chang’e-1 in 2007.
ESA will provide ground support from Kourou, French Guiana and from Maspalomas, Spain for China’s Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission.
ESA has 22 member states that decide on what programs to fund for the next three years at the ministerial conference.
The European Space Agency provides funding for the Guiana Space Center.
The Portuguese Space Agency is working with the European Space Agency to optimize the Azores as a landing zone for Space Rider by 2022.
Jan Woerner will propose a debris mitigation program at the European Space Agency Ministerial Council meeting on 2019-11-27–28 that includes in-orbit servicing, active debris removal, and active debris avoidance.
ESA developed the AIM mission internally and provided information to delegations only a few months ahead of the ministerial meeting.
Since 2016, ESA has been raising awareness among politicians of the possible danger of an asteroid impact as part of efforts to promote Hera.