Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The SatCen was founded in 1992 as the Western European Union Satellite Centre.It was incorporated as an EU agency on 1 January 2002. [2]In June 2014, a new Council Decision replaced the former Council Joint Action of 2001 to modify SatCen's mission, aligning it with the evolution of the user demand and the developments of the EU's space activities relevant to CFSP (ref. 1), making it an ...
Assembly of European Regions (AER) Eiroforum. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Danube Commission; European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA JET) European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) European Space Agency (ESA) European Southern Observatory (ESO) European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) European x-ray free ...
The European Space Agency is in talks with SpaceX about the possibility of Elon Musk's space venture joining an international charter designed to reduce a growing swarm of debris in space ...
Artists' impression of Giotto, the European Space Agency's first interplanetary mission, launched in July 1985. ARD, launched October 1998 – Demonstration mission to test new technologies in atmospheric entry design. CoRoT, launched December 2006 – CNES-led space telescope mission to search for rocky exoplanets and perform asteroseismology ...
The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
As of 2024, nearly 80 different government space agencies are in existence, including more than 70 national space agencies and several international agencies. Initial competencies demonstrated include the funding and nomination of candidates to serve as astronauts, cosmonauts, or taikonauts with the countries/organizations executing human spaceflight solutions.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is a space agency, managing the European Union Space Programme as one of the agencies of the European Union (EU). It was initially created as the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Supervisory Authority (GSA) in 2004, reorganised into the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (also GSA) in 2010, and established ...