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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Astrobotic is the only company selected by both NASA CLPS and by Airbus for this competitively awarded ESA mission study.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lander and partnered with German company OHB in January to commercialize the lander platform for potential future missions by the European Space Agency or other national space agencies.
Israel Aerospace Industries partnered with German spacecraft builder OHB to offer a version of the Beresheet lander to the European Space Agency for commercial lunar payload delivery.
Eurostar Neo was developed with support from the European Space Agency and national space agencies including those of France and the United Kingdom.
Under the teaming agreement, Israel Aerospace Industries will offer a version of the lunar lander it built for SpaceIL for use on ESA missions.
ArianeGroup and PTScientists received a contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a proposed lander mission to mine lunar regolith and demonstrate resource extraction viability.
Israel Aerospace Industries signed a teaming agreement with OHB System on 2019-01-29 to offer commercial delivery of payloads to the lunar surface for the European Space Agency.
Under a pilot partnership with the European Space Agency, the European Commission could buy a launcher each year and award its capacity to highly innovative projects to accelerate innovation in Europe.
The additional 96,000,000 EUR will fund new tasks ESA is taking on, including development of the Sentinel-6 mission and the European Copernicus Data Access and Information Services.
The European Space Agency operates seven Sentinel satellites in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, making Copernicus the largest provider of Earth observation data in the world.
The European Commission allocated 96,000,000 EUR ($109,000,000) for the European Space Agency to spend on the Copernicus program over the next two years.
ArianeGroup received the one-year contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a lunar lander mission proposal that would launch by 2025.
The European Space Agency awarded a one-year study contract to a consortium that includes ArianeGroup and PTScientists to study a lunar lander mission concept to mine lunar regolith.
Juventas will be part of ESA's HERA mission to a binary asteroid system, the first of its kind in Europe.
Dr. Ian Carnelli from ESA stated that the addition of Juventas will allow for additional bonus science alongside the HERA mothership.
ESA and GomSpace have signed a contract to develop a 6U nanosatellite named Juventas for the HERA mission.
The Preliminary Design Phase of Juventas and its interfaces with the mothership will be presented at ESA's Space19+ meeting by the end of 2019.
ESA is working to switch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission from Ariane 5 to Ariane 6 to add a fourth institutional mission to Arianespace’s Ariane 6 backlog.
The European Space Agency tasked ArianeGroup with designing and building the Ariane 6 launcher.
ESA considers starting production of Ariane 6 very soon necessary to allow Ariane 6 and Vega C to replace Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega during a transition period from 2020 to 2023.