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The ESA mission Biomass is scheduled to launch on a Vega-C rocket on April 29, 2025.
Biomass is the seventh Earth Explorer mission in the ESA's FutureEO program.
The ESA mission SWARM has been measuring the Earth's magnetic field since 2013.
The European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia spacecraft on March 27, 2025.
ESA is contributing a mass spectrometer on LUPEX to identify volatiles that escape from drilled samples and to study the Moon’s exosphere.
The LUPEX rover will carry instruments from Japan and India and contributions from NASA, ESA, and ISRO.
ESA's competition aims to evaluate proposals based on technical merits and business plans rather than financial contributions.
ESA announced its intent to hold a competition to support small launch vehicles at the European Space Summit in November 2023.
The relationship between the EU and ESA is defined in a 2004 Framework Agreement.
ESA will provide up to €169 million to each selected company as part of its European Launcher Challenge.
The ESA's astrometry satellite Gaia was put into a final sleep state on March 27, 2025.
Gaia was launched into space on December 19, 2013, by the European Space Agency using a Soyuz/Fregat rocket.
ESA began operating a LUNA facility since late 2024 to support lunar testing and qualification.
ESA and JAXA announced in November 2024 that they would examine opportunities for cooperation across a range of space projects including lunar exploration and have identified various lunar areas to evaluate in detail.
Today, the Disasters Charter has 17 members, including agencies like NOAA in the USA and ESA.
The Disasters Charter was proposed in 1999 jointly by CNES and ESA.
Hera is equipped with two identical cameras for redundancy, developed by Jena-Optronik and operated in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA).
The ESA spacecraft Hera flew past Mars on March 12, 2025, capturing images of the planet and its moon Deimos.
The system was first presented at the ESA's AR/VR conference in December 2023.
The European Space Agency's Copernicus program serves as a model for balancing commercial interests and public access in remote sensing data.