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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Gilat positions the Sidewinder ESA portfolio as part of a multi-orbit strategy spanning GEO and LEO systems to serve commercial and defense aviation customers.
Sidewinder ESA supports high throughput satellite networks to provide reliable, high-speed connectivity for passengers and crew across a wide range of aircraft types.
The ESA EnVision mission and NASA VERITAS mission include radar imaging systems intended to improve identification and study of surface skylights and subsurface features on Venus.
The study uses rotation-curve measurements from the European Space Agency's GAIA DR3 release for the Milky Way's outer halo.
The UK Space Agency is funding the TOUCAN project with support from the UK National PNT Office and management through ESA's NAVISP navigation program.
As of December 2025, Hungary committed €80 million to ESA’s Moon Exploration element.
As of December 2025, Italy committed €284.20 million to ESA’s Moon Exploration element, the largest element-level commitment to Moon Exploration.
In late 2025 Thales Alenia Space selected OHB to provide multiple subsystems for the descent element of the European Space Agency’s Argonaut lunar lander.
The Weizmann team plans to apply similar radio-occultation techniques to data from ESA's JUICE mission.
The European Space Agency's JUICE mission launched in 2023 to explore the Jovian system in detail.
The Argonaut lunar lander is designed to ferry a variety of payloads to the lunar surface, and ESA expects to launch the first Argonaut lander in 2031.
Germany contributed €885 million to ESA’s Exploration budget at CM25, the largest single national share, and made that contribution at the programme level rather than earmarked at the element level.
At ESA’s 2025 Ministerial Council meeting (CM25), Member States committed €2.98 billion to Exploration, €797 million short of the €3.77 billion envelope requested by the agency.
Germany’s programme-level contribution to ESA Exploration provides flexibility to allocate funding across LEO, Moon, Mars, Exploration Science, or ExPeRT once programme priorities and industrial returns become clearer.
ESA provided an animation using MTG-S Infrared Sounder data that tracks the Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption on November 23, 2025.
Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, participated in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace with French President Emmanuel Macron on 5 February 2026.
Telespazio is the prime contractor for ESA’s Moonlight program for lunar communications and navigation.
ESA describes the MTG-S infrared sounder as the first European hyperspectral sounding instrument in geostationary orbit.
The FOC-1A antenna will be able to support future missions connected to ESA’s global mission and satellite tracking network ESA Estrack.
Canada is an associate member of the European Space Agency.