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...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
At a two-day ministerial meeting held in Seville, Spain this week, the European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for ...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... now. Using the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer (UVIS) instrument on board the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a team of European astronomers have now spotted this elusive green line dayglow emission on Mars. Predicted...
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...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
..., air, and water for the spacecraft. It will be the first time that NASA has used a European-built system, provided by ESA (European Space Agency) as a critical element to power an American spacecraft. The spacecraft’s first mission will be Artemis...
