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
Go to topicThank you for liking
You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!
As part of an international team, ESA will build humankind’s most remote research base in orbit round the Moon and send the first Europeans to the lunar surface. The ultimate goal is to send European to Mars in the 2050s.
Europe is also central to the most ambitious Mars mission planned so far – the first robotic round-trip to the surface of the red planet that will return a sample of Mars to be studied on Earth. The sample could help determine whether there was life on Mars.