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 ECSS eGlossary app is available for download from the iOS and Android store and the ECSS e-Glossary Plugin for MS Word is available from the Microsoft Appstore.
In the ECSS eGlossary app you can search for terms used in the ECSS standards, find terms by branch, discipline or abbreviations and then filter your search results.
When logged in to the app, you can also bookmark terms in a ‘Favourites’ tab so that you can easily find them again at another time.
For each term, the app provides a Definition, the ECSS Standard in which the term is used such as ECSS-E-ST-60-20C Rev.1, additional Notes and Relations for related terms.
A more comprehensive glossary can be found on the ECSS website at https://ecss.nl/home/glossary/