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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. List of government space agencies - Wikipedia

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    List of space agencies. [] As of 2024, 78 different government space agencies are in existence, including 71 national space agencies and seven international agencies. Initial competencies demonstrated include funding and nomination of a candidate to serve as astronaut, cosmonaut, or taikonaut with the countries/organizations executing human ...

  5. European Union Space Programme - Wikipedia

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    Guiana Space Centre. Annual budget. €1.997-2.221bn [1] The European Union Space Programme[2] is an EU funding programme established in 2021 along with its managing agency, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme, [3] in order to implement the pre-existing European Space Policy established on 22 May 2007 when a joint and concomitant ...

  6. Guiana Space Centre - Wikipedia

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    Guiana Space Centre. The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre spatial guyanais; CSG), also called Europe's Spaceport, [ 3 ][ 4 ] is a spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a overseas region of France in South America. Kourou is located approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi; 270 nmi) north of the equator at a latitude of 5°.

  7. European contribution to the International Space Station

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    The European contribution to the International Space Station comes from 10 members of the European Space Agency (ESA) and amounts to an 8% share in the programme. It consists of a number of modules (primarily the Columbus laboratory) in the US Orbital Segment, ATV supply ships, launchers, software and €8 billion.

  8. European Space Agency Science Programme - Wikipedia

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    The Science Programme[1][2][a] of the European Space Agency is a long-term programme of space science and space exploration missions. Managed by the agency's Directorate of Science, The programme funds the development, launch, and operation of missions led by European space agencies and institutions through generational campaigns.

  9. European Space Research and Technology Centre - Wikipedia

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    The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology. It is situated in Noordwijk, South Holland, in the western Netherlands, although several kilometers off the village but immediately linked to the most Northern district of the nearby town Katwijk.