April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... to Baikonur for launch in 2021. One successful strategy was to try to spread costs by involving European countries and the European Space Agency (ESA). Russia launched Europe’s INTEGRAL observatory in exchange for observing time; began the ExoMars...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... less 22 years ago, in December 1999, when we became a member of the European Space Agency (ESA). At that time, various government ministries were responsible for our space activities but not necessarily in a strategic way, so in 2018 the government...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
..., are designed to align economic innovation with ecological responsibility. ESA strategy While the EU Space Act provides the regulatory scaffolding, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) approach defines the technical and programmatic direction. The...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... (EDRS), the SpaceDataHighway was developed through a public-private partnership (PPP) between Airbus and the European Space Agency (ESA). As such, Airbus’s Pléiades Neo satellites will be the first commercial constellation to be equipped with this...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... the help of engineers from companies spread throughout Europe such as Germany, France, Spain, Italy as well as the European Space Agency (ESA), over a month long period in December last year. The tests are part of the...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... that are available to Europe, this will again improve the European independent access to space,” Costa said. Portugal has been a member of the European Space Agency for more than 20 years and its Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago...
