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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ESA’s mission control centre is home to the engineering teams that fly spacecraft in orbit, manage our critical infrastructure, and design and build the systems on ground that support ‘first of a kind’ missions in space.
Our operations, astrodynamics and engineering experts enable European industrial development and competitiveness in mission operations. The orbiting testbed satellite OPSSAT enables European industry to boost their global competitiveness and gain flight heritage, while ESA’s world-class ground station expertise is enabling industry to build up Europe’s first commercial deep-space tracking business as part of their global tracking network. Cutting-edge developments in areas such as cybersecurity and automation enable secure, modern operations paradigms.