ESA

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Automated Transfer Vehicle
... or ATV is an expendable, unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) ... ESA has contracted suppliers to produce two more ATVs to be flown before 2015 ... On 2 April 2012 the ESA announced that the ATV program would end after the fifth ATV is launched in 2014 ...
Guiana Space Centre
... This is the spaceport used by the ESA to send supplies to the International Space Station using the Automated Transfer Vehicle ... When the European Space Agency (ESA) was founded in 1975, France offered to share Kourou with ESA ... ESA pays two thirds of the spaceport's annual budget, and has also financed the upgrades made during the development of the Ariane launchers ...
Wubbo Ockels - ESA Career
... In 1978, he was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of three European payload specialists to train for the Spacelab 1 mission ... In May 1980, under agreement between ESA and NASA, Ockels and Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier were selected to begin the basic astronaut training for mission ... a reusable, scientific research facility built by the European Space Agency (ESA) took place aboard the Space Shuttle in November 1983 ...
Institute Of Space Physics (Sweden) - Satellite Experiments
... on board the following on-going satellite projects Cassini (launched 1997), a combined NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) mission to Saturn and its moon Titan, Cluster (2000) is an ESA project with ...
Frank De Winne
... a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut ... He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21 ... ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln) ...