N° 74–2024: Media Invitation: ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing

Hear about ESA missions launching in 2025 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, such as Biomass, an Earth observation mission designed to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing. 

Get an insight into preparations for the next ESA Council at Ministerial Level which will take place in November 2025 in Bremen, Germany, where Ministers in charge of space activities will decide on future European space programmes. Updates will also be provided on how ESA is transforming to adapt to a fast-evolving landscape.  

ESA Directors will join Josef Aschbacher to detail ESA's new scientific, exploration, Earth observation, connectivity and navigation missions for 2025 – and the technology and operations that underpin them all. 

Media representatives are invited to register by 17:00 CET on Tuesday 7 January 2025 for an on-site presence in HQ Paris or to receive access codes for the ESA WebEx online session. Only those registered will be able to ask questions. 
https://blogs.esa.int/forms/esa-media-briefing-form/ 

ESA Director General’s Annual Press Briefing will also be streamed via esawebtv.esa.int on 9 January 2025 from 10:00 CET. 

Media contacts

For further information, please contact ESA Media Relations - Adelina Campos de Carvalho and Bernhard von Weyhe - media@esa.int 

Images

ESA's Photo Library for Professionals:  
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images  

Terms and conditions for using ESA images:  
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For questions or more information related to ESA images, please contact directly spaceinimages@esa.int 

Videos

ESA's Video Library for Professionals:  
https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos_for_Professionals  

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https://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions  

For questions or more information related to ESA videos, please contact directly spaceinvideos@esa.int 

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About the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space.  

ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.  

ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia are Associate Members.  

ESA has established formal cooperation with four Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.  

By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. It is working in particular with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological missions.  

Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int