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 planned Vega C introduction in 2019 and Ariane 6 debut in 2020 as part of European launch modernization efforts.
The European Space Agency provided €53 million toward Vega E in November.
The European Space Agency has worked on the SSMS adapter since 2016 alongside Avio of Colleferro, Italy.
Eutelsat is the first customer for Airbus’ Eurostar NEO platform, which Airbus developed with funding from the French and European space agencies.
The Galileo program is managed by the European Commission under a contract with the European Space Agency.
NASA expects JWST to launch on an Ariane 5 that the European Space Agency will provide in exchange for a share of observing time on the telescope.
British companies Mars Space Ltd. and Clyde Space, in cooperation with Southampton University and supported by the ESA, built a pulsed plasma thruster that occupies a fraction of a single cubesat unit and completed ground tests qualifying it for flight.
Maxar’s $1,300,000 deal with the UK Space Agency places MDA in a position to lead a European consortium to bid on the first phase of the European Space Agency’s space servicing vehicle robotics program.
The 2018-07-16 P120C test occurred without incident, met expectations, and the European Space Agency plans several months of analysis of the test data.
The European Space Agency signed a deal with the European Investment Bank to help create a level playing field for European companies to grow and compete globally.
GomSpace A/S, a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB, signed a 400 EUR contract with the European Space Agency for the first phase of the RACE project.
The joint agreement identifies ESA as providing the Sample Fetch Rover and its robotic arm as part of the NASA-led lander mission.
The European Space Agency awarded two study contracts to Airbus to study elements of a Mars sample return approach.
The Mars Sample Fetch Rover, as conceived by ESA, would launch to Mars in 2026 on a NASA lander mission.
ESA had planned to develop AIM in conjunction with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
ESA announced on 2018-06-25 that the proposed Hera mission had entered its next stage of engineering development.
ESA member states declined to fund the Asteroid Impact Mission at the agency’s ministerial meeting in December 2016.
ESA will provide the formal proposal for the Hera mission to governments at the beginning of 2019.
Arion 2 was originally envisioned as a 150-kilogram launcher for low Earth orbit missions and is under redesign after the European Space Agency selected it as part of the Future Launchers Preparatory Program in February.
The improved carbon fiber upper stage is planned to have its first flight between 2025 and 2030, contingent on ESA budget provisions.