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 European Space Agency headquarters in Paris | |
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| Formed | 30 May 1975 |
| Type | Space agency |
| Headquarters | Paris, France 48°50′54″N 02°18′15″E / 48.84833°N 2.30417°E |
| Official language | English, French and German (working languages)[1][2] |
| Administrator | Josef Aschbacher (Director General of the European Space Agency) |
| Primary spaceport | Guiana Space Centre |
| Owners | Member states:
Council members: Associate members: Cooperation agreements:[3] |
| Employees | 2,547 (2023)[4] |
| Annual budget |  €7.7 billion(US$8.0 billion) (2025)[5] |
| Website | esa.int |
The European Space Agency (ESA)[a] is a 23-member international organization devoted to space exploration.[8] With 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.[5]
The ESA Human and Robotic Exploration programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station programme); as well as the launch and operation of crewless exploration missions to other planets such as Mars, Moon, Jupiter and Mercury, Earth observation, science and telecommunication missions, designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou (French Guiana). Further programmes include space safety, satellite navigation, applications and commercialisation.
The main European launch vehicle Ariane 6 is operated through Arianespace with ESA sharing in the costs of launching and further developing the launch vehicle. The agency also collaborates with NASA to manufacture the Orion spacecraft service module ESM which flies on the Space Launch System.[9][10]
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- ^ "Annex 1 Resolution 8". ESA Convention and Council Rules of Procedure (PDF) (5th ed.). European Space Agency. March 2010. p. 116. ISBN 978-92-9092-965-9. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ^ "Agence spatiale européenne (ASE)" [European Space Agency (ESA)]. 23 February 2017. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to ESA: New Member States". ESA. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "Orion". European Space Agency. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "European Service Module". European Space Agency. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
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