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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The European Space Agency is assessing whether the second, healthy PROBA-3 spacecraft could safely approach and observe the orientation of the Coronagraph spacecraft to aid recovery efforts.
The European Space Agency lost contact with one of the two PROBA-3 spacecraft and announced the loss on 6 March.
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum of 20 hours of technical support.
The activity was funded through the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities to allow NGI and ESA to explore risks, refine requirements, and shape a practical tool for future missions.
Gianluca Furano is Senior On-Board Computer Engineer at ESA and emphasizes selecting sovereign technology with long-term availability for missions expected to remain in space for over a decade.
Φ-sat-2 is an ESA nanosatellite launched in late 2024 that serves as an in-orbit testbed for multiple AI applications running directly on high-performance processors.
The Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU) selected Castilla-La Mancha as a new ESA-BIC site in Spain through the European Space Agency incubation centers call.
The TerraMind foundation model, released by ESA and IBM Research Europe, provides a software backbone for hardware accelerators and enables cross-sensor data fusion such as combining SAR and optical data directly in orbit.
The European Space Agency provided €500,000 in funding for the Beaconsat project.
The Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU) selected the Región de Murcia as a new ESA-BIC site in Spain through the European Space Agency incubation centers call.
The Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU) selected País Vasco as a new ESA-BIC site in Spain through the European Space Agency incubation centers call.
Francisca Paiva was a master's student at KU Leuven and an intern at the European Space Agency during the research.
Silvio Sinibaldi is the planetary protection officer at the European Space Agency and the senior author on the study.
The three new ESA-BIC centers are expected to result in a total of 36 new companies linked to the space sector.
€30,000 of the minimum €60,000 per startup will be provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the European Space Agency (ESA).
With sustained support from the European Space Agency (ESA), the HECC is intended to become Europe's central control facility for human and robotic exploration missions.
The national ESA-BIC network sites are cofinanced and coordinated by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the Agencia Espacial Española (AEE) and by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum of 10 hours dedicated to defining industrial protection strategies or legal advice.
Each of the three new ESA-BIC centers will incubate up to four startups per site during a three-year period.
ESA launched Φ-lab Ireland on February 13, 2026, headquartered in Mullingar as a national hub for space-enabled AI and advanced manufacturing.