50 years of ESEC

50 years of the European space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) at Redu in Belgium, was marked on 3 July 2018 with a visit from dignitaries, including François Bellot, Belgium’s Minister for Transport, and Willy Borsus, Minister-President of Wallonia, accompanied by ESA’s Director General Jan Wörner.

ESEC is a centre of excellence for space cyber security services, home to ESA's Proba mission control centres, the Space Weather Data Centre, and is also home to the ESA Academy Training and Learning Centre and the E-Robotics lab, as well as part of ESA’s ground station network.