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  2. European Space Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Western European nations decided to have two agencies: one concerned with developing a launch system, ELDO (European Launcher Development Organisation), and the other the precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation). The latter was established on 20 March 1964 by an agreement signed on 14 June 1962.

  3. List of European Space Agency programmes and missions

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    View from the Operations Manager desk across the control room at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of missions, both operational and scientific, including collaborations with other national space agencies such as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the German ...

  4. Italian Space Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Italian Space Agency (Italian: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI) is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The agency cooperates with numerous national and international entities who are active in aerospace research and technology.

  5. Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre - Wikipedia

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    ESA logo. The Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) is the main centre of the Planetary Defence Office of the European Space Agency (ESA). The NEOCC, which is based at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, coordinates observations of small bodies such as asteroids and comets in the Solar System in order to evaluate and monitor the threat posed by those potentially hazardous.

  6. ESA Centre for Earth Observation - Wikipedia

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    The ESA Centre for Earth Observation (also known as the European Space Research Institute or ESRIN) is a research centre belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA), located in Frascati Italy. [1] It is dedicated to research involving earth observation data taken from satellites, among other specialised activities.

  7. European Space Research Organisation - Wikipedia

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    The origins of a joint European space effort are generally traced back to a number of initiatives taken in 1959 and 1960 by a small group of scientists and science administrators, catalysed by two friends, physicists and scientific statesmen, the Italian Edoardo Amaldi and the Frenchman Pierre Victor Auger. Neither Amaldi nor Auger was a ...

  8. List of government space agencies - Wikipedia

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    Croatian Space Agency (CROSA), proposed in 2020, currently operates as NGO Adriatic Aerospace Association (A3), at progress stage. [127] [128] Djibouti National Space Office, announced in 2022, at bill stage. [129] Guatemala Space Agency, proposed in 2019, at progress stage. [130] [131] Honduras Space Agency (AEH), proposed in 2018, at progress ...

  9. Space Rider - Wikipedia

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    The European Space Agency has a program called Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP), which made a call for submissions for a reusable spaceplane. [12] One of the submissions was by the Italian Space Agency, that presented their own Programme for Reusable In-orbit Demonstrator in Europe (PRIDE programme) which went ahead to develop the precursor called Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle ...