ESA seeks to ensure a sustainable growth of the European space sector and the creation of value to society, from basic research to service development.
The European Space Agency is Europe's gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to support the competiveness of European industry and deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. For this purpose, ESA has been measuring the impact of its activities and programmes since the nineties, gathering best practices from the experience of its Member States.
Discover moreWith the ESA Global Space Markets Challenge, eligible start-ups and SMEs have a novel opportunity to present their plans to introduce their space products and/or services to international markets. Six winning companies from the upstream and downstream space sector will benefit from support to access international markets, where their products, applications or services could find potential customers. Learn more about this years' winners!
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The Global Space Economic Forum (GSEF) is the foremost creative platform to interactively discuss space-led innovation opportunities driven by the space economy
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The Global Space Economic Workshop (GSEW) is a framework to bring together leaders from European industry to promote partnerships and collaborations
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The Grand Challenge is a competition that proposes inspiring goals far from market reach to tackle specific challenges with unconventional and disruptive approaches
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Impact
assessment is a crucial tool for policymakers to generate and analyse reliable
information on the impacts of policy and regulation. To provide consistent and
comparable outputs, the European Commission is providing a framework that helps
s...
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In June 2021, the
European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) published its annual Yearbook. It
provides an examination of the main trends and developments in the space
sector, space policy, and space programmes over the past year. Implementing a
worldwid...
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The bulkhead concept, which is part of the layers protecting
satellites on Ariane 5 and 6, has generated a spin-off for aircraft by Airbus Defence &
Space. Together with ESA’s Technology Transfer and Patent Office (TTPO) and
CiTD, this technolo...
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