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In August 2025, Isar Aerospace secured a contract under the ESA and European Commission’s Flight Ticket Initiative for institutional missions starting in 2026.
David Philips from ESA acknowledged Europe's good track record in deploying military satellite communications capabilities.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has opened its first operational hub in Asia at the X-NIHONBASHI TOWER.
The European Space Agency (ESA) established its first operational base in Asia at X-NIHONBASHI TOWER in Nihonbashi, Japan on October 28, 2025.
The European Space Agency (ESA) consists of 22 European countries working together to explore space and develop new technology.
Indra Group has extended its collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) with two new contracts to update the S3TSR space surveillance radar and develop a positioning and navigation receiver for low Earth orbit satellites.
Indra Group signed two new contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) to enhance Spain's and Europe's position in space surveillance and satellite navigation.
GomSpace received a new contract valued at 760,000 euros from the European Space Agency for the acceleration of its Attitude and Orbit Control Software development.
The most significant contributions to ESA programmes will be €40 to 50 million for ESA Earth Observation programmes.
The Copernicus system is primarily managed and funded by the EU with partial contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), and is recognized as the world's most advanced Earth observation system.
The fourth ESA deep space antenna, the second at New Norcia, is the most technologically sophisticated to date and includes cryogenically cooled components operating at approximately -263 °C.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has an annual budget of €7.7 billion ($13.8 billion), making it the second largest global space market.
ESA and NASA successfully predicted the time and location of 2023 CX1's fall with unprecedented accuracy.
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency calculated the location and timeline of asteroid 2023 CX1's descent with unprecedented accuracy.
France and Germany are the two largest contributors to ESA, with CNES contributing approximately 1 billion euros annually.
Exolaunch integrated and deployed 83 satellites into orbit across Bandwagon-1, Transporter-10, and Transporter-11 rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2024 and two dedicated missions with Rocket Lab and ESA’s Ariane 6 maiden flight.
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.
The European Space Agency and its partners announced a 2024-07-09 launch date for Ariane 6’s maiden flight.
The nearly 400-hour firing during Ienai’s ESA preliminary design review was the longest firing of an ionic-liquid electrospray thruster in Europe publicly announced to date.