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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Spain's investment at the ESA ministerial reached 8.6%, exceeding its share of European GDP.
Spanish astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández is a member of ESA's 2022 astronaut class, the Hoppers.
Isabel Rebollido is a planetary disc researcher at the European Space Agency who highlights that diverse exoplanet systems are prompting reassessment of traditional planet-formation theories.
LMT Group and Spanish satellite operator Sateliot launched a 12-month joint initiative with the European Space Agency on February 16, 2026 to develop a universal dual-mode IoT module.
Sophie Adenot is the first career astronaut of ESA’s 2022 'Hoppers' class to fly to the International Space Station.
εpsilon has a planned duration of up to nine months and will be the longest astronautic ESA mission to date.
SSSIF 2026 will include presentations on ESA scientific missions such as Comet Interceptor and AVS’s participation in Arrakihs, a dark matter study using the LUR-100 platform.
With long-term support from the European Space Agency (ESA), the HECC is set to become the European control center for human and robotic missions.
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule docked with the ISS on 14 February 2026 at 21:15 CET carrying ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roskosmos cosmonaut Andrej Fedjajew.
The ESA mission εpsilon began when French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot arrived at the International Space Station.
Daniel Neuenschwander is ESA Director for Astronautical and Robotic Exploration.
Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, posted on X on 13 February about Crew-12 reaching orbit.
The European Space Agency projects the number of satellites on orbit will grow to around 100,000 by 2030.
Three years after the 2022 selection, Sophie Adenot became the first member of that ESA cohort of career astronauts to travel to the International Space Station.
In early 2024 Sweden’s Marcus Wandt became the first of the 12 ESA reserve astronauts to secure a mission to the International Space Station on an Axiom-sponsored SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
In 2022 Sophie Adenot was selected from more than 22,500 applicants as one of five members of the European Space Agency’s newest class of career astronauts.
The Italian space ecosystem includes the National Technological Cluster for Aerospace (CTNA), five ESA Business Incubation Centres, and about 60 university departments active in the space domain.
Project astronaut flights for ESA are financed by individual member states rather than through the European Space Agency’s budget.
Sophie Adenot is an ESA astronaut assigned to the Crew-12 mission.
Marcus Wandt’s stay aboard the International Space Station lasted only a few weeks, compared with the several-month missions typical of ESA career astronauts.