European Space Agency European Space Agency ADM-Aeolus or briefly Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus is an ESA satellite that is due for launch in 2007. ADM-Aeolus will be the first equipment capable of performing global wind-profile observation and will provide much-needed information to improve weather forecasting. ...more on Wikipedia about "ADM-Aeolus"
Ariane is a series of a civilian European expendable launch vehicles for space launch use. The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane (rocket)"
Ariane I is the first version of the Ariane launcher family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane 1"
Ariane 2 and Ariane 3 were expendable launch systems in the Ariane family designed by the European Space Agency. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane 2 and Ariane 3"
Ariane 4 was an expendable launch system, designed by the European Space Agency and manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane 4"
Ariane 5 is an expendable launch system designed to deliver satellites into geostationary transfer orbit and to send payloads to low earth orbit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane 5"
The Advanced Reentry Demonstrator (ARD) was a suborbital reentry test flown on the third Ariane 5 flight. The ARD was launched on October 21, 1998, and was released shortly after separation of the launcher's cryogenic main stage (at an altitude of about 216 km) 12 minutes after lift-off from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator"
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The Aurora Exploration Programme is the long term undertaking of the European Space Agency and the European Union with the goal of exploring the Solar system. This ambitious programme's main objective is to send a manned european mission to Mars, with Moon being possible intermediate step. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aurora Exploration Programme"
The Aurora Programme of the European Space Agency is an ambitious programme of manned and unmanned exploration of the Solar system, and particularly Mars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aurora Programme"
The Automated Transfer Vehicle or ATV is a European Space Agency spacecraft designed to supply the International Space Station with propellant, water, air, payload experiments and the like. In addition, the ATV can re-boost the station, restoring its orbit that shrinks over time due to friction with the atmosphere. It is an unmanned spacecraft launched with an Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana. After approximately 2 days of autonomous transfer flight it arrives at the International Space Station and docks automatically to the Russian Service Module Zvezda. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automated Transfer Vehicle"
BepiColombo is a joint Cornerstone mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and JAXA of Japan to Mercury. The mission is still in the planning stages so changes to the current description are likely over the next few years. Due to budgetary constraints the lander portion of the mission (The Mercury Surface Element, or MSE) has been cancelled. However, Russia is interested in contributing with a lander as well as a few science instruments. ** The mission as currently envisioned involves two components: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) build by ESA and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) build by JAXA. The two components could be launched together (on an Ariane 5) but the more likely baseline scenario at present is two launches on Soyuz- Fregat boosters in 2011 to 2012. The spacecraft will have a 3.5 year interplanetary cruise to Mercury using solar-electric propulsion and Moon, Venus, and Mercury gravity assists. ...more on Wikipedia about "BepiColombo"
The Guiana Space Centre ( French: Centre Spatial Guyanais) is a French/ European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport due to its proximity to the equator, and the fact that launches in the favourable direction are over water. The European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES as well as the commercial Arianespace company launch their satellites from Kourou. ...more on Wikipedia about "Centre Spatial Guyanais"
CryoSat was an ESA satellite that was launched October 8, 2005. Its launch ended in failure, when the second stage engine of a modified Russian SS-19 ICBM did not cut-off as planned. ** ** CryoSat was proposed in 1998 by Duncan Wingham of University College London. The satellite's planned three year mission was to survey natural and human driven changes in the cryosphere on Earth. It was designed to provide much more accurate data on the rate of change of the surface elevation of the polar ice sheets and sea ice thickness. ...more on Wikipedia about "CryoSat"
:For other uses of the term double star, see double star (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Double Star Mission"
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The Envisat (Environmental Satellite) satellite is an Earth-observing satellite built by the European Space Agency. It was launched on March 1, 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at a height of 790 km (±10 km). It orbits the Earth in about 101 minutes with a repeat cycle of 35 days. ...more on Wikipedia about "Envisat"
The ESA Space Debris Telescope is located on the island of Tenerife, Spain. Its primary purpose is the observation of space debris in the geostationary ring and in geostationary transfer orbits. It is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with an aperture of 1 m and field of view of 0.7 degrees. Its detection threshold is between 19th and 21st magnitude, which corresponds to a capability to detect space debris objects as small as 15 cm in the geostationary ring. ...more on Wikipedia about "ESA Space Debris Telescope"
The European geostationary navigation overlay system (EGNOS) is a satellite navigation system under development by the European Space Agency, the European Commission and EUROCONTROL. It is intended to supplement the GPS and GLONASS systems by reporting on the reliability and accuracy of the signals. According to specifications, horizontal position accuracy should be better than 7 meter. In practice, the horizontal position accuracy is at the meter level. It will consist of three geostationary satellites and a network of ground stations and was intended to be operational in June 2005, but due to delays the date has been pushed back to the first quarter of 2006. It is planned as a precursor to the Galileo positioning system. ...more on Wikipedia about "European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System"
European Remote-Sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agency's first Earth-observing satellite. It was launched on July 17, 1991 into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at a height of 782–785 km. ...more on Wikipedia about "European Remote-Sensing Satellite"
The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975,is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 17 member states. Its headquarters are in Paris, France. ESA has a staff (excluding sub-contractors and national space agencies) of about 1900 with a budget of €3 billion in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "European Space Agency"
The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is responsible for controlling ESA satellites and space probes. The centre is located in Darmstadt, Germany. It is Mission Control for most of the space projects of the ESA. ESOC also houses the Ground Facilities Control Centre (GFCC) that is responsible for remote operation of the ESTRACK network of Ground Stations and antennas. ...more on Wikipedia about "European Space Operations Centre"
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. ...more on Wikipedia about "European Space Research and Technology Centre"
The Exosat satellite was operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants. The payload consisted of three instruments that produced spectra, images and light curves in various energy bands. ...more on Wikipedia about "EXOSAT"
The Galileo positioning system is a proposed satellite navigation system, to be built by the European Union (EU) as an alternative to the US military-controlled Global Positioning System and the Russian GLONASS. The system should be operational by 2010, two years later than originally anticipated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Galileo positioning system"
Hermes was a proposed mini-shuttle designed by the European Space Agency that externally had a lot of similarities with the US X-20. The program was greenlit by the French government in 1978, but the project officially started in November 1987, scheduled for service in 1995, but was finally terminated in 1993 after changes in the financial and political landscape had removed the arguments for Hermes. No Hermes shuttles were ever built. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermes (shuttle)"
Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency orbital craft advanced concept. The advanced studies were somewhat supported by the EADS Phoenix flight test project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hopper (spacecraft)"
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