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’s JUICE spacecraft’s science camera captured the first images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
On 25 February, ArianeGroup completed a months-long test campaign of its Greta rocket engine and secured a European Space Agency contract to continue Greta development.
Isar Aerospace won the first microlauncher competition run by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under ESA’s Boost! program, enabling selection of the payloads for the upcoming flight.
ESA identified potential uses for Greta including lunar landers and kick stages.
Greta is an evolution of the Berta rocket engine developed by ArianeGroup under an ESA Future Launchers Preparatory Programme contract.
Aalyria has announced partnerships or strategic collaborations with Telesat, Google Public Sector, NASA, Airbus, ALL.SPACE, Keysight Technologies, Logos Space, and the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency achieved a 1 gigabit-per-second laser link between an aircraft and a geostationary satellite.
The contract includes the design and testing of a representative model of ESA’s European Argonaut lander geometry to validate mechanical interfaces and operational procedures for rover deployment.
ESA's Juice mission will dedicate extensive observation time to Ganymede's auroras to trace their variability and study the moon's space environment.
ESA BIC Lazio is an initiative of Regione Lazio, Lazio Innova, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Stefano Carosio is affiliated with STAM and serves as an ESA Ambassador for the InCubed program.
The laser link established by the European Space Agency connected a flying aeronautical platform directly to a satellite in geostationary orbit.
The European Space Agency signed a contract with Venturi Space for a risk-reduction study focused on key technologies for the next generation of lunar rovers.
If launched as planned, Twardowski would be the first fully European lunar mission since ESA’s SMART-1 mission, which operated from 2003 to 2006.
The European Space Agency is advancing optical space communications as part of European efforts to strengthen technological autonomy and industrial competitiveness in space connectivity.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing an all-European lunar mission to deliver high-resolution orbital data on the presence of various resources on the Moon.
Michele Iapaolo is affiliated with the European Space Agency and focuses on commercial opportunities from AI in upstream and downstream satellite data applications.
ESA and InCubed projects presented by Stefano Carosio focus on optimizing satellite data for construction, environmental monitoring, and natural disaster mitigation.
Creotech Instruments is the ESA prime contractor coordinating the consortium and is further developing a missions concept from an earlier phase.
Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, posted on X on 26 February 2026 about an ESA technical achievement.