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ESA and the EU

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This European Union flag was flown on board the ISS during ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers' Delta Soyuz mission, April 2004.

Credits: ESA

A new European dimension

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View of the Ariane-5 ECA Flight 164 launch on 12 February 2005 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE-Service Optique CSG

Increasing cooperation

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Artist's impression of the complete Galileo constellation of thirty satellites orbiting in three planes

Credits: ESA - J. Huart

Raising political awareness

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ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Valérie Pécresse, French Minister of Education and Research, at the Fourth Space Council Meeting held in Brussels on 22 May 2007.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja

Last update: 1 June 2011

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