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 received a mandate at an intermediate ministerial meeting in October 2018 to negotiate the terms of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement.
ESA’s 2019 budget is 5,720,000,000 EUR, up from 5,600,000,000 EUR in 2018.
Daniel Neuenschwander will request funding to prepare technological building blocks such as advanced propulsion systems and upper stages so ESA can decide at the 2022 ministerial whether Ariane 6 and Vega C can continue with upgrades or require a more radical approach by the 2030 horizon.
The Italian Space Agency’s Prisma satellite was planned for a 2018 launch but was delayed to 2019 due to delays with ESA’s Aeolus wind-mapping satellite.
ESA’s Aeolus wind-mapping satellite launched on a Vega in August 2018.
The European Space Agency awarded the FLORIS contract to Rome-based Leonardo in 2016.
The European Space Agency selected the FLEX mission in 2015.
A contract change on 2019-01-10 made Thales Alenia Space, rather than ESA, Leonardo’s customer for the FLORIS instrument.
The European Space Agency initially expected the FLEX satellite to launch in 2022.
Thales Alenia Space received a contract from the European Space Agency worth approximately 150,000,000 EUR ($172,400,000) on 2019-01-10 to build the Fluorescent Explorer satellite.
Eutelsat Quantum features technology developed through the European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program with support from the U.K. Space Agency.
Giuseppe Reibaldi is president of the Moon Village Association and previously worked for 35 years at the European Space Agency.
ESA is not requiring that the redesigned e.Deorbit mission deorbit Envisat, an ESA Earth-observation satellite that shut down unexpectedly in 2012.
The European Space Agency redesigned its e.Deorbit program originally created in 2013 to expand the mission beyond deorbiting a single satellite.
ESA will pay a company to deorbit one of the agency’s satellites only if the company produces a viable business plan that does not rely on continued funding from ESA.
Jan Woerner, ESA’s director general, narrowed the list of proposals to six and plans to further reduce the list to two before seeking member-state funding at ESA’s tri-annual ministerial conference in November.
ESA plans to seek member-state funding for the redesigned e.Deorbit program at its tri-annual ministerial conference in November.
The present contract between GomSpace and ESA covers design and specification work planned for 2019.
GomSpace signed a €300,000 development contract with the European Space Agency to initiate the GOMX-5 satellite mission.
Under the no-funds-exchanged agreement, ESA will provide Astroscale with collision assessments for the ELSA-d Chaser, including collision avoidance manoeuvre recommendations and screening.