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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ESA and ArianeGroup plan 14 Ariane 6 missions during the Ariane 5-to-Ariane 6 transition scheduled from 2020 to 2023.
ESA wants Ariane 64 to be an option for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission but will consider launching JUICE on Ariane 64 only after a commercial Ariane 64 launch has occurred.
The European Space Agency’s 22 member states agreed on 2019-04-17 to a workaround to enable full-scale Ariane 6 production despite a shortfall of public sector launch contracts.
ArianeGroup is contracted by the European Space Agency to design and build the Ariane 6 rocket.
European Space Agency member states are working to win approval for ESA’s role in the exploration program at a ministerial meeting in November in Spain.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the lander for SpaceIL and is studying other opportunities for using that lander system, including a partnership with German company OHB to study its use for European Space Agency missions.
Malfunctioning circuits on Japanese direct broadcast satellite receivers have interfered with microwave sensors operating in the 1.4 to 1.47 GHz range, making it extremely difficult for the European Space Agency’s SMOS satellite and NASA’s SMAP satellite to monitor Japan.
PRISMA was originally scheduled to launch in 2018 but was pushed into 2019 by delays with the European Space Agency’s Aeolus wind-mapping satellite, which also required a Vega launch.
Avio exceeded its upper 2018 revenue projection of 365,000,000 EUR due to faster than expected progress on next-generation projects with the European Space Agency.
Avio has four Vega launches planned in 2019: the Italian Space Agency’s PRISMA satellite, the ESA-supported SSMS adaptor proof-of-concept flight, and the launches of the United Arab Emirates’ Falcon Eye 1 and Falcon Eye 2 satellites.
The European Space Agency is conducting studies with Avio and other companies on European microlaunchers ahead of an ESA ministerial conference in November where the agency plans to propose a program supporting privately-led, privately-funded microlauncher-based launch services.
The European Space Agency would provide a module called European System Providing Refueling, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT) for the Gateway.
The European Space Agency delayed Vega C’s debut to the first quarter of 2020.
The European Space Agency and the German space agency DLR opened a 50,000,000 EUR engine test facility in Lampoldshausen, Germany to support Ariane 6 development.
Canada intends to expand its relationship with the European Space Agency and renew the cooperation agreement between Canada and ESA until 2030.
The Canadian government unveiled a national space strategy focusing on artificial intelligence, deep-space robotic systems, Earth-observation capabilities, and expanding ventures with the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency plans to operate the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) until sometime in the first half of the 2020s when the spacecraft’s solar panels are expected to no longer provide necessary power.
The European Space Agency has invested in business incubation centers and there are 24 such centers now.
Goonhilly Earth Station Limited of the United Kingdom is a member of the ESA study team led by Airbus and Astrobotic.
A team led by Airbus has been competitively selected by the European Space Agency to study delivery of a payload package onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander around 2025.