November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... Lunar Lander Team in the Development Projects Group of the Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration Directorate, European Space Agency. He is leading the development of the PROSPECT instrumentation and sensors, including the preparation of PROSPECT...
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...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
..., so it will be an opportunity to do additional things, as well as running all the existing projects with the European Space Agency (ESA), and at bilateral and national levels. It’s a complex challenge,” he admitted. Spain is a founding member...
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...
