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.
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As an example, the amount of radio-frequency interference that was contaminating SMOS data over Greece has reduced significantly. This image shows brightness temperatures recently observed by SMOS, which can be compared with the next image showing the situation around a year ago. The difference is thanks to the efforts that have been made to shut down unwanted signals stemming from sources such as television and radio links, radar and wireless camera monitoring systems.