The European Space Agency (ESA) 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 deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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This image shows a part of the vast territory of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome – the only orbital launch site situated within European territory – located in the Archangel region (Arkhangelsk Oblast) of northern Russia. This image was acquired by Korea’s Kompsat-2 on 27 June 2007. ESA is supporting Kompsat-2 as a so-called 'Third Party Mission', which means ESA utilises its multi-mission European ground infrastructure to acquire, process and distribute data from the satellite to its wide scientific user community.