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European Space Agency (ESA)

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Blue Ghost 2 is scheduled for 2026 to land on the lunar farside and to deploy the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder communications satellite into orbit.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 19, 2024Firefly wins NASA contract for third lunar lander mission

Avio signed a contract with ESA to launch the Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) spacecraft.

Mentioned as: ESATechnical ProductDec 19, 2024ESA and Avio sign contracts for Vega upgrades and new launch

Teledyne Space Imaging has been awarded the role of Prime Contractor for the CAS (Constellation Acquisition Sensor) instrument for the ESA LISA mission.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2024Teledyne Space Imaging awarded payload contract for the CAS instrument on LISA, the ESA Space Observatory mission

Filippo Marliani is the LISA project manager at ESA.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2024Teledyne Space Imaging awarded payload contract for the CAS instrument on LISA, the ESA Space Observatory mission

LISA is a mission led by ESA, in partnership with their member states and NASA, to study gravitational waves emitted during powerful events.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2024Teledyne Space Imaging awarded payload contract for the CAS instrument on LISA, the ESA Space Observatory mission

SpaceRISE, the consortium comprising Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, signed an agreement with the European Commission and the European Space Agency to design, deliver and operate the IRIS² infrastructure for a period of 12 years.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2024IRIS2 lifts off as European Commission and SpaceRISE sign contract in Brussels

Teledyne Space Imaging seeks to consolidate its work with NASA and ESA into 2025 and beyond.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 18, 2024Teledyne Space Imaging awarded payload contract for the CAS instrument on LISA, the ESA Space Observatory mission

TENACIOUS is the first lunar micro-rover to be launched to the Moon and was designed, manufactured, and assembled in Europe with co-funding from the Luxembourg Space Agency through a European Space Agency contract under the Luxembourg National Space Programme LuxIMPULSE.

Mentioned as: European Space AgencyOrg RelationshipDec 18, 2024ispace Announces SMBC x HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Venture Moon Mission Milestones & Ventures

The European Space Agency will provide €55 million to IRIS2.

Mentioned as: the european space agencyNarrative FinancialDec 17, 2024Forrester’s Digest: EU spends €10bn on Starlink rival

The European Commission and European Space Agency signed contracts with an industrial consortium on 2024-12-16 to develop a secure connectivity constellation costing 10,600,000,000 EUR.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Org RelationshipDec 16, 2024Europe signs contracts for IRIS² constellation

The European Space Agency is providing 550,000,000 EUR to IRIS² that was allocated at its 2022 ministerial conference.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Org RelationshipDec 16, 2024Europe signs contracts for IRIS² constellation

Orbex has won more than a dozen research and development contracts from the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 8, 2024Orbex starting development of medium sized launch vehicle + operations going to SaxaVord

The UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency provided about $35,000,000 in funding for the mission.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Org RelationshipDec 8, 2024Forrester’s Digest: UK to test-remove OneWeb satellite from space

Sentinel-1C is a radar imaging satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for the Copernicus program run by the European Space Agency and the European Commission.

Mentioned as: European Space AgencyOrg RelationshipDec 6, 2024Vega C successfully returns to flight

Copernicus is a joint program of the European Union and ESA, providing satellite-based information services for land surface, oceans, atmosphere, disaster management, climate change, and civil security.

Mentioned as: ESATechnical ProductDec 6, 2024Vega-C bringt neuen europäischen Wächter-Satelliten ins All

Neuraspace’s telescope precision reduces positional uncertainty to less than 100 m within a single orbital revolution, meeting the 2023 ESA Space Debris Mitigation Requirement.

Mentioned as: ESAOrg RelationshipDec 6, 2024Neuraspace installs its second optical telescope in Chile for global satellite tracking coverage

DLR teams from Oberpfaffenhofen are collaborating with ESA on the calibration and validation of Sentinel-1C systems.

Mentioned as: ESAOrg RelationshipDec 6, 2024Vega-C bringt neuen europäischen Wächter-Satelliten ins All

Proba-3 involves more than 40 companies from 14 ESA member states and required more than a decade of development.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 5, 2024PSLV rocket launches Europe’s Proba-3 mission to mimic solar eclipses

ESA established communication with Sentinel-1C at 00:12 CET confirming the satellite was safely in orbit.

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 5, 2024ESA launches Copernicus Sentinel-1C aboard Vega-C from French Guiana

The Proba-3 mission has a total mass of 550 kg and is led by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Mentioned as: European Space Agency (ESA)Narrative GeneralDec 5, 2024PSLV rocket launches Europe’s Proba-3 mission to mimic solar eclipses
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