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ClearSpace, the Swiss startup that won the ESA contract for ClearSpace-1, raised $29,000,000 on 2023-01-19 to advance work on the spacecraft for a planned launch in 2026.
ESA BICs, launched in 2003, are the largest network of space incubators in Europe, with over 25 centres established in approximately 80 locations across ESA Member States.
Arianespace and the European Space Agency will establish an independent commission to investigate the Vega C launch failure on 2022-12-20 that resulted in the loss of two satellites.
Vega C’s inaugural launch operated by ESA occurred successfully on 2022-07-13.
OQ Technology plans to launch the LSA- and ESA-supported MACSAT mission in March 2023.
ESA’s ground stations supported a commercial Moon landing for the first time with HAKUTO Mission 1.
The European Space Agency is the largest customer of the MASER program and funded several experiments onboard SubOrbital Express 3.
Germany is ESA’s largest contributor and is providing 3,510,000,000 EUR to ESA for the three-year period compared to 3,290,000,000 EUR in 2019 according to ESA.
European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher set the target for Ariane 6’s maiden flight to sometime in 2023 on 2022-06-13.
AstroAgency secured contract work from the European Space Agency’s network of UK Business Incubation Centres in the first quarter of 2022.
Arianespace won a contract from the European Space Agency to launch Sentinel-1C in the first half of 2023 and the terms of the contract were not disclosed.
ESA halted plans to launch the ExoMars mission on 2022-03-17 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ESA is studying ways to launch the stranded satellites using Ariane 6 and Vega C launch vehicles, both scheduled to make their inaugural launches 2022.
ESA is supporting development of the M10 upper stage engine for the Vega E variant, which is slated to make its first launch around 2025.
Airbus Defence and Space completed flight tests that concluded the final phase of the five-year Clean Sky 2 IFC ESA project.
PTS, a Berlin-based aerospace company, was selected by the European Space Agency to fly the company’s Curium One mission on the Ariane 6 maiden flight as early as 2022.
LuxSpace is developing a flexible microsatellite platform called Triton-X under a contract with the European Space Agency’s ARTES programme.
NanoAvionics received a €1 million grant from the European Space Agency in 2024 to develop new technologies for small satellite propulsion systems.
A European Space Agency schedule released 2021-12-07 indicates the Ariane 6 first launch slipped from the second quarter of 2022 to at least the third quarter of 2022.
HORIBA MIRA and GMV NSL are collaborating to develop new and improved passenger car platooning solutions on behalf of the European Space Agency.