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 proposed plan calls for the NASA lander to launch in the summer of 2026 and the ESA orbiter to launch in the fall of 2026.
ESA released an invitation to tender to industry on 2019-07-23 to build the Earth return orbiter based on recently completed orbiter design studies.
Luna 27 is a planned lunar lander mission by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) with collaboration by the European Space Agency to send a lander to the Moon’s South Pole by 2024/2025.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT.
PROSPECT is a payload package being developed by the European Space Agency to fly on the Luna 27 lunar lander.
OneWeb is partnering with ESA and Astroscale to advance Active Debris Removal concepts, technologies, and business strategies.
ISISPACE will cooperate with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency on the Vega launch vehicle family to support the European space industry.
ISISPACE will work with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency to perform qualification activities for the ISIS CubeSat deployment sequencer to qualify it for use on the Vega launcher.
ISISPACE will work with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency to perform qualification activities to qualify the ISIS sequencer for use on the Vega launcher.
One ESA participation concept for Mars sample return would provide a fetch rover to collect Mars 2020 cached samples and load them into a Mars ascent vehicle for placement into orbit, with an ESA orbiter then collecting the sample canister and returning it to Earth.
The British-built Beagle 2 lander was flown on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was not heard from after its December 2003 landing, with later NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images suggesting the spacecraft landed intact but failed to deploy all its solar panels or its communications antenna.
The European Space Agency currently has no Mars landers planned after ExoMars 2020.
NASA and ESA signed a statement of intent on 2019-07-02 regarding the science benefits of a joint Mars sample return mission.
ESA plans to seek approval from its member states at the Space19+ ministerial meeting in November to pursue a role on a Mars sample return mission.
Holger Krag, head of the space safety program office at the European Space Agency, found that only 30 percent of satellite operators were implementing proper post-mission disposal of their spacecraft.
Comet Interceptor will launch in 2028 as a secondary payload on ESA’s Ariel exoplanet science mission.
ESA selected Comet Interceptor on 2019-06-19 as its first F-Class mission in the Cosmic Vision program.
GomSpace is continuing to build up engineering capacity to support ongoing work with the European Space Agency across Denmark, Luxembourg, and Sweden.
Avanti’s Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch in late July aboard Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C with the payload and host satellite launching on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The European Space Agency provides the service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft under an existing agreement.