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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On 22 January, ESA announced that Rocket Factory Augsburg had been awarded a Flight Ticket Initiative contract for launch services for two missions comprising a total of three satellites.
ESA awarded the first two Flight Ticket Initiative contracts to Avio and Isar Aerospace in August 2025.
The study involves international collaboration, including the ESA's NEO Coordination Centre, the Universities of Alicante and Barcelona, and NSF NOIRLab in Hilo, Hawaii.
The European Space Agency published a call to tender for a study examining the re-entry and breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage in February 2025.
The ESA Technology Support Program (GSTP) continues to be central to European technological maturation.
On 21 January 2025, ESA's Space Safety Programme published a call for tender for a study utilizing data collected from the Falcon 9 re-entry event over Poland.
SWISSto12 closed €73M in non-dilutive funding from ESA under the ARTES program.
Funding commitments at ESA’s ministerial meeting in November came from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, and Canada.
The in-flight connectivity service will use Gogo’s next-generation Plane Simple electronically steered antenna (ESA).
Teledyne Space Imaging has supplied space-qualified imaging sensors, focal plane arrays, and camera systems to major agencies including NASA, ESA, JAXA, and KARI and has contributed to more than 250 space projects.
Jimmy von Korff supports using Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO connectivity and Gogo ESA hardware to bring narrowbody aircraft into the digital era, enable ancillary revenue growth, streamline operations, and provide passengers with connectivity comparable to their ground experiences.
Thales Alenia Space signed a €16.5 million contract with prime contractor OHB System AG to supply the propulsion subsystem for ESA's LISA mission for phase B2.
Benjamin Rasse is the European Space Agency team lead for the ExoMars descent module.
At GMV, Miguel Belló Mora served as director of the company’s delegation to the European Space Agency in Germany.
The ESA and member-state funding will allow Swissto12 to further develop phased-array antenna technologies for onboard satellite payloads and ground products such as user terminals.
The HummingSat Partnership Project is part of ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme.
ESA and SWISSto12 signed a contract in early 2022 to begin work on the HummingSat Partnership Project.
SWISSto12 will use the new ESA Member State funding to accelerate development and industrialisation of HummingSat and to scale up HummingSat manufacturing capacity.
The €34.9 million committed by ESA Member States is intended to co-finance launch services rather than directly support rocket development activities.
Member States committed €30 million in initial funding for SWISSto12’s HummingSat project at the 2022 ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Paris.