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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Thales Alenia Space signed a €26.1 million contract with the European Space Agency for phase 1 of the LISA telescope development.
Arrakihs is the first ESA scientific mission led by Spain.
The European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite was launched by Arianespace.
CIMR will use the largest multifrequency conical-scanning microwave radiometer developed by the ESA.
#T-TeC is sponsored by ESA, ASI, AIDAA, AIAD, SGAC, CEAS, and UKSA.
Cristal will continue the ESA’s CryoSat mission.
ESA missions are extending the lunar exploration effort that followed Artemis II.
Edge Aerospace signed four additional contracts with ESA, the European Defence Fund, the Luxembourg Space Agency, and the Luxembourg MoD.
The ESA developed the Sentinel satellite family to meet Copernicus operational needs, and Eumetsat operates the satellites jointly with the ESA.
KESSLER from the University of Trieste's Astreo Team and AIPER from Politecnico di Milano were selected for a four-month path with ESA BIC Brindisi.
ESA, its member states, and NASA share responsibility for developing LISA’s payload.
Kepler Communications has pursued international orbital broadband communications contracts for the European Space Agency and the United States.
Thales Alenia Space signed a €26.1 million Phase 1 contract with the European Space Agency for development of the telescopes for the LISA mission.
Edge Aerospace landed a contract under ESA’s Space Cloud program to study orbital data centers.
Sentinel-1D underwent a roughly six-month in-orbit commissioning phase before ESA declared it operational.
The ESA secured funding in 2024 to expand Copernicus with six new missions: Chime, CIMR, CO2M, LSTM, Cristal, and ROSE-L.
The European Space Agency awarded Thales Alenia Space a €26.1 million contract to develop six optical telescopes for ESA’s LISA mission.
The ESA Space Cloud agreement requires Edge Aerospace to develop an architecture and use-case road map for orbital data centers.
ESA launched Sentinel-1C in 2024 and Sentinel-1D in 2025 to restore and extend the Sentinel-1 mission.
The European Space Agency declared Copernicus Sentinel-1D fully operational on May 1, 2026.