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The Dragon Freedom crew comprised ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev.
Discussions about a future EU space framework program include the possibility that the EU program budget could surpass ESA funding contributed by its member states, which would substantially expand the market for the European space industry.
The ESA εpsilon mission has a planned duration of up to nine months and will become the longest ESA astronaut mission to date.
Sophie Adenot is the first career astronaut from ESA's 2022 astronaut class, known as the Hoppers, to fly on a space mission.
Kepler is pursuing institutional contracts and was selected as the prime contractor for Element 1 of ESA’s HydRON (High-throughput Digital and Optical Network) program for optical communications.
Sophie Adenot will conduct up to 36 European experiments aboard the ISS, including seven experiments developed by the French space agency CNES specifically for the εpsilon mission.
The SAGA program engaged the European Space Agency as design advisors for the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI).
The ESA Ministerial Conference held in Bremen in November committed €22,300,000,000, a funding package significant for the telecommunications sector.
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule docked to the International Space Station on 14 February at 21:15 Spanish peninsular time, marking the official start of ESA's εpsilon mission.
Belgian astronaut Raphael Liegeois is a member of the European Space Agency's 2022 astronaut class and experienced strong emotion watching Sophie Adenot lift off.
The ESA aims to build a multivendor ecosystem in Europe for communications technologies to reduce technological dependence on external actors.
The Quasar program is intended to mature entanglement networks and quantum distribution and is being prepared for the next ESA ministerial cycle.
On February 11, Jared Isaacman met in Washington with Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, to align strategies for lunar exploration and future Mars missions.
The European Space Agency (ESA) Council Ministerial adopted a record budget of €23,000 million, a 30% increase over the previous ministerial.
Spain's investment at the ESA ministerial reached 8.6%, exceeding its share of European GDP.
Sophie Adenot first applied to be a European Space Agency astronaut in 2008 at age 25 and was rejected.
The European Space Agency projects the space economy will be around one trillion dollars in the next decade.
More than €450,000,000 has been allocated to optical and quantum communications programs in the last ESA funding cycle, making it the second most funded area within ESA’s telecommunications directorate.
Sophie Adenot was selected for the European Space Agency astronaut corps in 2022 from a pool of 22,000 candidates and undertook three years of training.
LMT Group and Spanish satellite operator Sateliot launched a 12-month joint initiative with the European Space Agency on February 16, 2026 to develop a universal dual-mode IoT module.