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 awarded a contract valued at more than $475,000 to Astroscale UK to lead the design of the In-Orbit Refurbishment and Upgrading Service (IRUS).
The research resolved a discrepancy in the ESA Gaia DR3 catalog where the initial Gaia orbital solution for the object indicated a much shorter period and lower eccentricity.
The European Space Agency awarded a contract valued at approximately $475,807.50 to Astroscale UK to lead the design of the In-Orbit Refurbishment and Upgrading Service (IRUS).
ESA’s 2040 goal includes becoming space-debris neutral by 2040, and the IRUS demonstration lays groundwork for future ISAM missions toward that goal.
David O'Ryan and Pablo Gomez of ESA developed an AI tool called AnomalyMatch to scan millions of astronomical images far faster than human experts can.
ESA and the EU SST network forecast the ZhuQue-3 upper stage’s reentry around midday after a final overflight of Germany at about 10:00 local time.
The Crew-12 mission crew comprises NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
The ESA study aims to maximize the scientific return from the Falcon 9 reentry event using publicly available data because access to SpaceX confidential information is considered unlikely.
The ESA tender states that significant uncertainties remain about the physics and dynamics of destructive reentry in the very low Earth orbit regime below 150 kilometers altitude.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a cooperative project between NASA and ESA.
The researchers plan to extend their dark matter mapping across the entire sky using the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The European Space Agency published a tender for a study examining the reentry and breakup of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 upper stage that fell on Polish territory in February 2025.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, ESA's Euclid mission, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are expected to produce datasets that far exceed Hubble's in size.
Crew-12’s flight roster includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adeno, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
On 21 January, the ESA Space Safety Programme published a tender for a study that will use data from the Falcon 9 upper-stage reentry over Poland to help predict risks associated with reentries of long upper stages.
The MTG Infrared Sounder and the MTG S1 satellite platform were developed for the European Space Agency by a European industrial team led by Thales Alenia Space and OHB System AG under requirements defined by EUMETSAT.
Josef Aschbacher is the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA closed out 2025 with record funding commitments from its member states.
Laurent Jaffart is Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications at the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency invested in SWISSto12 to accelerate maturation of the HummingSat product line and the manufacturing ramp-up for that product line.