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The ESA's Zero Debris Charter calls on signatories to not leave any debris in orbit by 2030.
ESA reported that there are now 35,000 objects in orbit that are at least ten centimeters across, with over 9,000 being active satellites.
ESA has its own ClearSpace project to demonstrate the ability to deorbit space debris.
ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher stated the failure of the Ariane 6 upper stage to relight its engine was an embarrassment for ESA.
In May 2023, ESA announced that 12 countries had signed the Zero Debris Charter.
ESA aims for a 99% probability of success for the removal of space objects from orbit at the end of their missions.
The TENACIOUS lunar micro rover was designed, manufactured, and assembled with co-funding from the Luxembourg Space Agency through a European Space Agency contract with the Luxembourg National Space Programme LuxIMPULSE.
ESA plans to grow its UK workforce to 200 people by 2030.
The European Space Agency unveiled plans on 2024-07-23 to expand its presence in the United Kingdom.
Orbit Fab received a £165,000 contract with the European Space Agency via City University London.
Astroscale Ltd (Astroscale UK), the UK subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc., secured EUR 13.95 million from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to support the final phase of the ELSA-M in-orbit demonstration.
ESA provided initial funding to Ramses now that is intended to be enough to get the mission through a preliminary design review scheduled for fall 2024.
ESA members will decide on funding Ramses at the ESA ministerial meeting in late 2025.
ESA’s Hera mission is scheduled to launch in October 2024 to visit the asteroid Didymos.
ESA’s Gaia spacecraft was launched in December 2013.
The European Space Agency completed the critical design review for the Earth Return Orbiter on 2024-07-05.
ESA declared the launch of Ariane 6 a success.
The European Commission and ESA have upcoming missions that could be delayed due to the grounding of the Falcon 9.
The study was funded by ESA and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Global Litter Observatory (ref. CTM2016-77106-R/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR).
There are 1,100,000 space debris objects between greater than 0.01 m and 0.1 m in orbit, according to ESA’s Space Debris Office figures from June.