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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Airbus selected Vega to launch the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite in 2022 and also procured the July launch of the UAE’s Falcon Eye 1.
ESA’s 22 member states will decide what initiatives to fund for rockets and other space programs at the agency’s ministerial conference on 2019-11-27-28, 2019, in Seville, Spain.
Airbus is building the Biomass satellite, a 1,200-kilogram carbon dioxide-monitoring spacecraft, under an ESA contract awarded in 2016.
NASA is assisting ESA with ground tests of the parachute extraction systems using facilities at JPL, with that testing to be completed before the early-2020 high-altitude balloon tests.
Top officials at the European Space Agency remain confident they can resolve parachute problems that threaten to delay the ExoMars 2020 launch.
The ExoMars 2020 mission is a rover mission managed by the European Space Agency.
Thales Alenia Space will build Eutelsat-10B on the Spacebus NEO platform developed with the French and European space agencies.
ESA members will decide their individual contributions to the funding proposal during a ministerial meeting 2019-11-27–28 in Seville, Spain called Space19+.
ESA plans to participate in Artemis through modules for the lunar Gateway and a European Large Logistics Lander cargo lander planned for missions after the 2024 landing.
ESA’s proposal seeks 12,500,000,000 EUR from its member states over three years for the agency’s array of programs.
Jan Woerner expects that ESA member states will provide most, if not all, of the funding the agency is seeking at a ministerial meeting in November.
Luxembourg announced a partnership with the European Space Agency to study cooperation on space resources four days before the 2019-10-22 NASA memorandum of understanding.
The European Space Agency canceled the Hermes crewed spaceplane project in 1992 after schedule delays and cost overruns.
ESA and prime contractor ArianeGroup have two Prometheus engines currently being built using funds granted at ESA’s 2016 ministerial and earlier work supported by the French space agency CNES.
ESA’s goal for Prometheus is to manufacture the engine for 1,000,000 EUR each, which is one tenth the price of the Vulcain engine used on the first stage of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket.
ESA is seeking 12,500,000,000 EUR at its Space19+ ministerial 2019-11-27–28 in Seville, Spain.
The European Space Agency will ask its 22 member states next month to fund an additional two to eight Prometheus reusable engines.
The European Space Agency will ask its 22 member states to commit to funding a budget of 12,500,000,000 EUR spread over the next three years.
ESA Director General Jan Woerner will put the 12.5 billion-euro proposal to the ESA Ministerial Council on 2019-11-27-28 in Seville, Spain.
The European Space Agency funded the second GOMX-4 satellite, which carries several tech-demonstration payloads.