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 and a team of Polish companies signed a contract to study rocket fuel injectors that use green propellant.
The European Space Agency provided its funding contribution through the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems division to develop the inter-satellite links.
GomSpace signed a development contract with the European Space Agency in December 2018 to initiate the GOMX-5 satellite mission.
The plasma analyzer instrument funded by the U.K. Space Agency will be flown on a space weather mission being developed by ESA in coordination with a separate spacecraft that NOAA will develop.
The contract signed between GomSpace and ESA in December 2018 covers design and specification work planned for 2019.
The ESA-Russia ExoMars 2020 mission plans to send a lander and rover during the July–August 2020 Mars launch window.
Hylas-3 is a 9 gigabits-per-second payload with steerable Ka-band beams included on Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C.
GomSpace’s subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency signed a EUR 400,000 contract for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission.
NOAA’s Joint Venture Partnership proposal is a $2,300,000 initiative to help NOAA ingest data from research satellites flown by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
ESA’s ISRU Demonstration Mission aims to demonstrate the feasibility of producing resources such as water on the Moon by 2025.
ispace announced a new contract on 2019-05-22 under the Luxembourg National Space Programme LuxIMPULSE implemented by the European Space Agency.
OHB, the parent company of MT Aerospace, received 8,600,000 EUR from ESA for the PHOEBUS program.
The European Space Agency awarded contracts to ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace on 2019-05-14 to develop a prototype upper stage called PHOEBUS.
The majority of the PHOEBUS program is funded with a small additional amount expected to come from ESA’s ministerial conference in November in Seville, Spain where 22 member states will decide funding levels.
ESA projects that Icarus could be ready for Ariane 6 by 2025 if it is fully funded.
ESA member states reallocated 70,000,000 EUR to lightweight upper stage technologies and to keep production of the P120C strap-on booster in Italy rather than creating a second production line in Germany.
An upper stage built with carbon-composite materials instead of aluminum could increase Ariane 6’s payload to geosynchronous orbit by up to two metric tons while lowering launch costs, according to ESA.
The European Space Agency’s April launcher agreement provided missions for the Avio-led Vega C rocket.
Airbus designed the Eurostar Neo platform with the European Space Agency to be significantly cheaper than current satellites.
ESA has a ceiling on how much funding it will provide to support the first Ariane 64 mission.