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Jean Jacques Dordain, former ESA Director General (2003–2015), became the first honorary member of EURO2MOON.
In 2020, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and European partners including ESA launched the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite to collect the most accurate data on global sea level.
ESA Agenda 2025 frames upcoming retirements as both a loss of expertise and an opportunity to recruit people with knowledge in other domains and to improve diversity and gender balance in the agency’s workforce.
The European Space Agency’s most recent recruitment campaign prior to 2021-2022 took place between 2008 and 2009.
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG is the first company to sign the second contract in ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support program.
The European Space Agency plans to launch a space-debris-collection mission in 2025.
Airbus and Thales Alenia Space won contracts valued at more than $1,000,000,000 with ESA and the UK in the summer prior to The Space Report 2020 Q3.
Copernicus is the largest provider of Earth observation data worldwide, with the European Commission leading the programme and ESA responsible for developing, building and launching the dedicated satellites.
Germany committed to spending 3,300,000,000 EUR on future space programs during the previous fall, making Germany ESA’s single biggest contributor.
Rolf Densing, director of operations at ESA, prioritizes the health of the workforce and ESA will reduce activity on some scientific missions, especially interplanetary spacecraft that require the highest number of personnel on site.
ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
Jan Woerner expects that ESA member states will provide most, if not all, of the funding the agency is seeking at a ministerial meeting in November.
Both Astroscale and ClearSpace won contracts to participate in the Sunrise Project, a public-private partnership led by OneWeb and the European Space Agency to explore advanced technologies including active debris removal.
ispace announced a new contract on 2019-05-22 under the Luxembourg National Space Programme LuxIMPULSE implemented by the European Space Agency.
Canada intends to expand its relationship with the European Space Agency and renew the cooperation agreement between Canada and ESA until 2030.
The European Space Agency operates seven Sentinel satellites in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, making Copernicus the largest provider of Earth observation data in the world.
The European Space Agency plans to launch an Earth observation satellite nicknamed BrainSat equipped with Intel’s Myriad visual data processor.
Thales Alenia Space received a 324,000,000 EUR contract from the European Space Agency on 2018-10-18 to develop new ground segment and security systems for the Galileo satellite navigation system.
An Airbus-led consortium including Planet won a contract in July to provide high-resolution imagery of Europe for the European Commission and the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program.
Goonhilly won a contract from the European Space Agency to upgrade the 32-meter dish at its facility to support the agency’s deep space missions.