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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Astroscale France is participating in the ECO-Tethers project under the European Space Agency’s FIRST! program.
The ESA call invites proposals for a fully reusable spaceplane system and targets at least two distinct design concepts.
The new station is part of the SSC Space optical service development project NODES within the European Space Agency’s Optical and Quantum Communications – ScyLight program.
The Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana functions as the European spaceport for ESA and its institutional and commercial partners.
ESA operates the Space Rider programme.
On 9 March 2026 the Smile satellite was transferred to the launch site managed by the European Space Agency at the Guiana Space Centre.
ESA’s Zero Debris Charter mandates that satellites launched after 2030 must have a reliable, high-probability deorbiting plan.
The Santiago OGS is a primary output of the European Space Agency's ScyLight (Optical and Quantum Communications) program.
Laurent Jaffart is Director of the European Space Agency’s Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity Directorate.
Dassault Aviation and the companies involved in ESA’s Space Rider programme are not SMEs.
ESA BIC Lazio supports the creation of businesses that develop applications using space-based systems such as satellite navigation, Earth observation, or satellite communication in non-space sectors and/or develop products and services for the space sector.
The ESA AI hub at ECSAT will be dedicated to the development and experimentation of artificial intelligence solutions applied to satellite systems.
The ESA AI hub at ECSAT is designed to offer European companies a dedicated space for experimenting with solutions that integrate artificial intelligence and satellite infrastructure.
Resources allocated to ESA BIC Lazio for the 2024–2027 period total 1 million euros.
The UK Space Agency will support the ESA AI hub at ECSAT.
Startups participating in ESA BIC Lazio can use spaces and laboratories and receive technical support from experts directly or indirectly connected to the program.
The European Space Agency will build a new AI hub at ECSAT (European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications) in the United Kingdom.
The European Space Agency’s Third Party Missions program supported research that generated Arctic-wide sea ice freeboard maps using GNSS-Reflectometry data.
ESA BIC Lazio is a program of Regione Lazio, Lazio Innova, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Astroscale France joined the ESA Invitation to Tender 1-12998, FIRST! Technologies in Sustainability for Future Space Transportation: System Study.