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 maneuvered its Aeolus Earth science satellite on September 2, 2019 to avoid a potential collision with a SpaceX Starlink satellite.
The probability of collision between the Aeolus and the Starlink satellite exceeded the decision threshold, prompting ESA to prepare a maneuver.
SpaceX was aware of a potential conjunction on August 28 and communicated with ESA at that time.
PTScientists had been working on lunar lander concepts, including a study for the European Space Agency of a mission to send a lander to the moon to perform experiments for in-situ resource utilization.
ESA confirmed that the Aeolus spacecraft was operating normally after the time of closest approach.
The company’s European office was selected by the European Space Agency in July 2019 to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program to extract water on the Moon.
NASA and the European Space Agency are planning a Mars sample return campaign that includes a NASA-led lander to fetch cached samples and launch them into Mars orbit and an ESA-led spacecraft to capture the sample container in orbit and return it to Earth.
The NASA-led fetch-and-launch mission and the ESA-led return mission are planned to launch in 2026 and return the samples in 2031.
The European Space Agency will convene a workshop of Mars parachute specialists in September 2019 to seek additional insights for the mission.
The Call to Orbit programme provides selected participants with knowledge, advice, and introductions to a network to commercialize their ideas via the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency plans to conduct another high-altitude test of the 15-meter parachute before the end of 2019.
The European Space Agency confirmed on 2019-08-12 that a parachute test for the ExoMars 2020 lander mission failed.
Orbex is funded by Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor Deimos Space, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
Orbex is funded by Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor Deimos Space, the UK Space Agency (UKSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
The European Space Agency began working to become familiar with Iceye data in October 2018.
The Third Party Missions mechanism has been used to support non-ESA missions for more than 30 years.
ASI’s total budget, including contributions for the European Space Agency, is between 800 and 900,000,000 EUR.
Under the proposed cooperation, NASA would provide a Mars lander mission with a European-built rover to retrieve Mars 2020 samples.
NASA and ESA signed a statement of intent in April 2018 to study cooperation on a series of Mars sample return missions.
NASA announced a “lean” sample return architecture in August 2017 that underpins the proposed cooperation with ESA.