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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ClearSpace was selected by the European Space Agency from about a dozen competitors to retrieve an ESA rocket component as part of the ClearSpace-1 mission.
ClearSpace receives research and technical support from the EPFL Space Center and is part of the ESA Business Incubation Center in Switzerland.
Both Astroscale and ClearSpace won contracts to participate in the Sunrise Project, a public-private partnership led by OneWeb and the European Space Agency to explore advanced technologies including active debris removal.
JPL’s potential contribution to a mid-2020s Mars sample-return effort would be to land on Mars, gather samples, and launch them into Mars orbit for collection by an ESA-built orbiter.
Francesca Letizia, an engineer at the Space Debris Office of the European Space Agency, presented findings from ESA’s Space Environment Report at the AMOS conference on 2019-09-19.
Francesca Letizia, an engineer in ESA’s Space Debris Office, suggested that emails or late-night calls may not be efficient coordination mechanisms for satellite maneuvers.
ESA plans to start a global competition to analyze historical data from ESA missions on conjunctions.
The European Space Agency shifted the orbit of its Aeolus spacecraft to avoid a close approach to a SpaceX Starlink satellite.
The European Space Agency has sought assistance from NASA to qualify parachutes for the ExoMars 2020 mission.
Open Cosmos will provide 4DCube with space mission expertise including mission software, access to satellite payload integration and test hardware, and introductions to a network via the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency is seeking to expand its Govsatcom efforts at the next ministerial meeting in late November in Spain and will seek 300,000,000 EUR for the expanded program.
The European Space Agency secured 85,000,000 EUR at its 2016 ministerial meeting for a Govsatcom Precursor effort to develop more secure communications for Europe’s public sector.
Avanti has a hosted payload on Airbus’ and the European Space Agency’s EDRS-C lasercomm satellite.
The Call to Orbit programme provides Delox with knowledge, advice, and introductions to a European Space Agency commercialization network.
The European Space Agency is expected to approve a significant budget increase at its ministerial council in November 2019.
ESA informed SpaceX of the potential close approach and SpaceX acknowledged it.
Experts in ESA's Space Debris team calculated the risk of collision between the Aeolus and the Starlink satellites.
ESA's conjunction assessment team noticed the potential close approach about five days in advance using data from the U.S. Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron.
The European Space Agency awarded the lunar lander study to a team that included PTScientists and ArianeGroup in January.
This maneuver was the first time the European Space Agency had to avoid a satellite associated with a broadband megaconstellation.