European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA), pronounced 'ee-sah', is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. It has its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023. ESA was founded in 1975 in the context of European integration. Its 2025 annual budget was €7.7 billion.

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space agency, intergovernmental organization, international organization, SMILE, Euclid Consortium, European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications, Aurora programme, Gaia, Samantha Cristoforetti, spaceflight, space exploration, research and development, activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies, SMILE, France, 


Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems, Ariane 1, Ariane 2, Ariane 4, ARTES-11, Cluster, Cluster II, Cosmic Vision, CryoSat, Dong Fang Hong 2, Earth Explorer Programme, Ekran, European Remote-Sensing Satellite, General Support Technology Programme, Horizon 2000, Meteosat First Generation, PROBA, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-11, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-7, Space Rider, Swarm, Voyage 2050, 

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  Meteosat ⓘ
  family of European weather satellites

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  Ariane 1 ⓘ
  rocket of the Ariane family

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  Ariane 3 ⓘ
  rocket of the Ariane family

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  Ariane 2 ⓘ
  rocket of the Ariane family

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  Ariane 4 ⓘ
  European rocket of the Ariane family

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  Cluster II ⓘ
  constellation of four European Space Agency spacecraft

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  PROBA ⓘ
  series of European research satellites

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  Sentinel-1 ⓘ
  model of synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite

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  Sentinel-11 ⓘ
  model of Earth observation satellite

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  Sentinel-2 ⓘ
  model of Earth observation satellite

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  Sentinel-3 ⓘ
  model of Earth observation satellite

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  Sentinel-7 ⓘ
  model of Earth observation satellite

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  Space Rider ⓘ
  ESA uncrewed space vehicle

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  Swarm ⓘ
  ESA's space program to study Earth's magnetic field

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  Meteosat First Generation ⓘ
  first generation model of European weather satellite

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  Cluster ⓘ
  intended constellation of four European Space Agency spacecraft: destroyed during launch failure

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  Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems
  European Space Agency space telecommunications programme

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  ARTES-11
  European Space Agency programme for developing a small geostationary satellite platform

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  ARTES-20
  European Space Agency programme for developing applications of space-based technology

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  CryoSat
  ESA satellite programme

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  Earth Explorer Programme
  satellite program under ESA's Living Planet Programme

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  European Remote-Sensing Satellite
  European Space Agency Earth-observing satellite program

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  General Support Technology Programme
  European Space Agency technology programme

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  Horizon 2000 ⓘ
  space programme of the European Space Agency

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  Cosmic Vision ⓘ
  third campaign of the European Space Agency Science Programme

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  Voyage 2050 ⓘ
  European Space Agency Science Programme

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1975 European Space Agency

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1960 Meteosat

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1979 — 1986 Ariane 1

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1984 — 1989 Ariane 3

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1986 — 1989 Ariane 2

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1988 — 2003 Ariane 4

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1977 — 2017 Meteosat First Generation

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1996 Cluster

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1985 — 2004 Horizon 2000

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2005 Cosmic Vision

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2035 — 2050 Voyage 2050

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James Webb, Space Telescope

Photo of Thomas Pesquet, French astronaut at ESA (2020)

Fortran punch card ESA

Expedition 14 crew

ESA-developed Earth observation missions ESA19415147

ESA-developed Earth observation missions ESA19415147 (cropped)

Veszprém 1979, Vár utca 37. és 39. sz. épület. Fortepan 31161

ESA-USOC--02

Awarua Tracking Station

Alexandr Smoleevskiy (Александр Смолеевский), Romain Charles, Alexey Sitev (Алексей Ситёв) , Sukhrob Kamolov (Сухроб Камолов), Diego Urbina, Wang Yue (王跃), crew of the 520-day simulation of a trip to Mars before starting the mission.

• New direction at ESA - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1989, online
• ESA members reluctant to replace Cluster mission - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1996, online
• Research on space system maintainability & maintenance technology in NASA and ESA - article published in 2003, Q7850, online
• The ESA DUE Permafrost project - A service for high latitude research - scholarly article published July 2012, Q1860, online
• Unsupervised on-demand web service for DInSAR processing: The P-SBAS implementation within the ESA G-POD environment - , Q1860, 2015, online
• ESA seeks to pick up the pieces from Cluster mission's fiery fate - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1996
• Algorithms – ESA 2006 - scholarly article published 2006 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Q1860
• Spatially Distributed Evaluation of ESA CCI Soil Moisture Products in a Northern Boreal Forest Environment - scientific article published in 2018
• om Sveriges anslntning till konvention angående uppättande av ett europeiskt rymdorgan, m.m. - proposition in the Riksdag 1975-12-31, Swedish
• om Sveriges anslntning till konvention angående uppättande av ett europeiskt rymdorgan, m.m. - proposition in the Riksdag 1975-12-31, Swedish
• European Space Agency experiments on thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in space - scientific article published on 11 July 2019
• Lift spending cap or lose Mars mission, ESA panel warns - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1997
• European debt crisis. Greece eyes CERN, ESA cuts to plug budget gap - scientific article published on 01 April 2012, Q1860
• Bioencapsulation: a biotechnological tool for biological life support for manned missions by the European Space Agency - scientific article published on January 1993
• Solar system science with ESA Euclid - scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Q1860, 2018
• Lack of cash for instruments ‘threatens ESA science missions’ - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1997
• Screening the ESA ATSR-2 World Fire Atlas (1997–2002) - scholarly article, Q1860, 2006
• APEX - the Hyperspectral ESA Airborne Prism Experiment. - scientific article published on October 2008, Q1860
• The role of physiotherapy in the European Space Agency strategy for preparation and reconditioning of astronauts before and after long duration space flight - scientific article published in January 2017
• med anledning av propositionen 1975/76:58 om Sveriges anslutning till konvention angående upprättande av ett europeiskt rymdorgan, m. m. - motion by C.-H. HERMANSSON 1975, Swedish
• [The astronauts of the European Space Agency] - scientific article published on 01 June 2002
• Efficiency Tests Results and New Perspectives for Secure Telecommand Authentication in Space Missions: Case-Study of the European Space Agency - , 2005
• Space Station Plan Upsets Europe: European Space Agency claims it is being treated as a junior team member in NASA's plans for running its orbiting microgravity research facilities - scientific article published in December 1986, Q1860
• Priorities in national space strategies and governance of the member states of the European Space Agency - scholarly article by Maarten Adriaensen et al published December 2015 in Acta Astronautica, Q1860
• The space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics: SPICA A joint mission between JAXA and ESA - scholarly article by Bruce Swinyard & Takao Nakagawa published 13 May 2008 in Experimental Astronomy, Q1860
• Scientists press ESA to restore budget to 1971 levels - journal article; published in Nature on 1978-10-01, Q1860
• Defining Major Surgery: A Delphi Consensus Among European Surgical Association (ESA) Members - scientific article published on 14 March 2020, Q1860
• Shape modeling technique KOALA validated by ESA Rosetta at (21) Lutetia - , Q1860, 2012
• Selecting algorithms for Earth observation of climate within the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative: Introduction to a special issue - scholarly article by Christopher J. Merchant et al published June 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment
• Cross-cultural issues in space operations: A survey study among ground personnel of the European Space Agency - , Q1860, 2009
• European Space Agency “crippled space science in Europe” says ESF report - journal article; published in Nature on 1979-11-01, Q1860
• The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables - scholarly article by R. Hollmann et al published October 2013 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Q1860
• Short duration microgravity experiments in physical and life sciences during parabolic flights: the first 30 ESA campaigns - scientific article, Q1860, 2004
• 95th ESA Annual Meeting - , 2010
• Ecology in the information age: patterns of use and attrition rates of internet-based citations in ESA journals, 1997–2005 - scientific article published in 2008, Q1860
• Assembly processes comparison for a miniaturized laser used for the Exomars European Space Agency mission - , Q1860, 2016
• Investigations of cataclysmic variables by ESA INTEGRAL - scholarly article, 2012
• European Space Agency. ESA and the European Union: a marriage made in the heavens? - scientific article published on 01 April 2003, Q1860
• ESA task force - Sub-project of WikiProject Europe, 1988
• ESA – Partners into Space - , 1994
• Losers could still be winners in ESA space competition - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1992
• ESA drops Hermes and turns towards links with Russia - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1995
• ESA eyes the attractions of small space missions - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2019
• The ESA Swarm mission to help ionospheric modeling: a new NeQuick topside formulation for mid-latitude regions - scientific article published on 22 August 2019, 2010
• Optical design of the single-detector planetary stereo camera for the BepiColombo European Space Agency mission to Mercury - scientific article published in May 2010, Q1860, 2012
• European Space Agency. Tough financial times bring ESA down to earth - scientific article published on 01 November 2012, Q1860, 2017
• The ARIEL ESA mission on-board metrology - scholarly article published June 2017, Q1860, 2012
• Introducing the European Space Agency Architectural Framework for Space-Based Systems of Systems Engineering - scientific article (publication date: 2012), Q1860, 1987
• ESA presents united front to competitors at Paris air show - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2015
• Improved wet path delays for all ESA and reference altimetric missions - scientific article published in 2015, 1989
• ESA tries to change NASA's mind - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1995
• ESA warns of blow to cooperation - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1975
• om Sveriges anslntning till konvention angående uppättande av ett europeiskt rymdorgan, m.m. - proposition in the Riksdag 1975-12-31, Swedish, 2003
• European Space Agency. Financial crisis puts comet mission on the ropes - scientific article published on 01 May 2003, Q1860, 2002
• ESA weighs up future after Ariane explosion - , Q1860, 1975
• med anledning av propositionen 1975/76:58 om Sveriges anslutning till konvention angående upprättande av ett europeiskt rymdorgan, m. m. - motion by C.-H. HERMANSSON 1975, Swedish, 2015
• Synergy in Scientific Publishing: The ESA-Oxford University Press Partnership - scientific article published on 01 February 2015, 2016
• Exercise in space: the European Space Agency approach to in-flight exercise countermeasures for long-duration missions on ISS. - scientific article published on 02 August 2016, Q1860, 1995
• Rosetta: An ESA Mission - scientific article published on 01 April 1995, Q1860, 2000
• EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics - scientific article, Q1860, 1974
• Towards a European Space Agency - journal article; published in Nature on 1974-9, Q1860, 2015
• Synergy in Scientific Publishing: The ESA-Oxford University Press Partnership - scientific article published on 01 February 2015, 2005
• Roskosmos and ESA jointly draw up plans for the future - Wikinews article, German, 2013
• La ciencia, esa extranjera - scientific article published in 2013, 1989
• Britain drops ESA project - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2000
• EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: Getting More Out of Space - scientific article published on November 2000, Q1860, 2015
• An On-Demand Web Tool for the Unsupervised Retrieval of Earth’s Surface Deformation from SAR Data: The P-SBAS Service within the ESA G-POD Environment - , 2025
• Waar is alles van gemaakt? - , Dutch, 2015
• Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative - article, 2007
• Combined Raman spectrometer/laser-induced breakdown spectrometer for the next ESA mission to Mars - scientific article published on 24 March 2007, Q1860, 2013
• Ten years of MIPAS measurements with ESA Level 2 processor V6 – Part 1: Retrieval algorithm and diagnostics of the products - scholarly article by P. Raspollini et al published 23 September 2013 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• The challenging environment on board the International Space Station affects endothelial cell function by triggering oxidative stress through thioredoxin interacting protein overexpression: the ESA-SPHINX experiment. - scientific article, Q1860, 1997
• ESA agrees full re-fly for Cluster mission - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1987
• UK under fire for refusal to increase ESA science budget - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1988
• ESA science projects due to be chosen - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1984
• The Life Sciences Programme of the European Space Agency, and opportunities for radiation biology experiments - scientific article published on January 1984, Q1860, 1988
• ESA and NASA get it together - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2011
• Dependability Issues of INPE's ESA/CCSDS Telecommand/Telemetry Subsystem - , Q1860, 1972
• European Space Agency by 1974 - journal article; published in Nature on 1972-12-01, Q1860, 1995
• ESA avoids split over space station plans .. - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1994
• ... as France and Germany end ESA dispute - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2016
• 50 years of space research in Europe: a bibliometric profile of the European Space Agency (ESA) - scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	class	1960	Meteosat	weather satellite, geostationary satellite	Wikidata
class	rocket	1979	Ariane 1	Ariane	Wikidata
class	rocket	1984	Ariane 3	Ariane	Wikidata
class	rocket	1986	Ariane 2	Ariane	Wikidata
class	rocket	1988	Ariane 4	Ariane	Wikidata
class	space object		Cluster II	geomagnetic satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		PROBA	research satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Sentinel-1	SAR satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Sentinel-11	Earth observation satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Sentinel-2	Earth observation satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Sentinel-3	Earth observation satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Sentinel-7	Earth observation satellite	Wikidata
class	space object		Space Rider	reusable spacecraft, spaceplane, uncrewed spacecraft	Wikidata
class	space object		Swarm	geomagnetic satellite	Wikidata
class	space object	1977	Meteosat First Generation	weather satellite, geostationary satellite	Wikidata
class	space object	1996	Cluster	geomagnetic satellite	Wikidata
class	space program		Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems		Wikidata
class	space program		ARTES-11		Wikidata
class	space program		ARTES-20		Wikidata
class	space program		CryoSat		Wikidata
class	space program		Earth Explorer Programme		Wikidata
class	space program		European Remote-Sensing Satellite		Wikidata
class	space program		General Support Technology Programme		Wikidata
class	space program	1985	Horizon 2000		Wikidata
class	space program	2005	Cosmic Vision		Wikidata
class	space program	2035	Voyage 2050		Wikidata
link	page		Open GLAM Survey page@		Wikidata
commons	image		James Webb, Space Telescope		Commons
commons	image		Photo of Thomas Pesquet, French astronaut at ESA (2020)		Commons
commons	image		Fortran punch card ESA		Commons
commons	image		Expedition 14 crew		Commons
commons	image		ESA-developed Earth observation missions ESA19415147		Commons
commons	image		ESA-developed Earth observation missions ESA19415147 (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Veszprém 1979, Vár utca 37. és 39. sz. épület. Fortepan 31161		Commons
commons	image		ESA-USOC--02		Commons
commons	image		Awarua Tracking Station		Commons
commons	image		Alexandr Smoleevskiy (Александр Смолеевский), Romain Charles, Alexey Sitev (Алексей Ситёв) , Sukhrob Kamolov (Сухроб Камолов), Diego Urbina, Wang Yue (王跃), crew of the 520-day simulation of a trip to Mars before starting the mission.		Commons