28 September 2015
Leaders of World Space Agencies To Converge for IAC 2015 in Jerusalem
..., Administrator of China’s CNSA, Igor Komarov, Head of Russia’s ROSOSMOS, Naoki Okumura, President of Japan’s JAXA, and Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency. “As the incoming Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
..., Hera, was also given approval at the meeting. “You have a happy DG in front of you,” ESA Director General Jan Woerner said at a press conference at the end of the meeting. Due to launch in 2024, Hera is the European contribution to an international...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
...’s textbook launch has added two more satellites to what has become Europe’s largest satellite constellation,” commented Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA in a press conference yesterday. “It was made possible by the fact that European industry...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
... rover captures this spirit and carries us all to the forefront of space exploration,” says ESA Director General Jan Woerner. The name was revealed this week in the ‘Mars Yard’ at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, in the...