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
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
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Managing our planet today requires timely and reliable access to information such as only satellites can provide. They continuously monitor oceans, land, ice and atmosphere, capturing natural phenomena in their entirety, whatever their scale or duration, to millimetric precision.
Since 1978, the European Meteosat weather satellites have provided a wealth of data for the meteorology community, while ESA’s Envisat and ERS remote-sensing satellites have allowed scientists to build almost 20 years of datasets on environmental phenomena and climate chang