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.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
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The full-scale engineering model of ESA’s Huygens probe is on display on the recreated surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, in front of the Paris Town Hall, for Europe Day celebrations, on 9 May 2007. During preparation for the Huygens mission, this model was actually dropped by a stratospheric balloon from an altitude of 38 km in order to test and validate the probe’s descent sequence.