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The current (C) and future (F) missions below are operated by ESA at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany, or at other partner locations.

ESA missions operated from ESOC

Name	Description	Purpose	C/F?
ADM-Aeolus	The 'Wind' mission	Earth observation	F
BepiColombo	Mercury explorer	Science	F
Cluster II	Solar wind	Science	C
CryoSat-2	Ice mission	Earth observation	C
Envisat	Earth's environment	Earth observation	C
Gaia	Galactic surveyor	Science	F
GMES/Sentinels	Global monitoring	Earth observation	F
GOCE	Earth gravity mission	Earth observation	C
Herschel	Space observatory	Science	C
Integral	Gamma-ray astronomy	Science	C
LISA Pathfinder	Gravitational waves	Science	F
Mars Express	Mars explorer	Science	C
Planck	Cosmic microwave surveyor	Science	C
Rosetta	The 'Comet Chaser'	Science	C
Swarm	Earth geomagnetic surveyor	Earth observation	F
Venus Express	Venus explorer	Science	C
XMM-Newton	X-ray observatory	Science	C

ESA missions operated elsewhere

These ESA missions are operated by ESA (or supported by ESA's Spaceflight and Operations team) away from ESOC.

ATV-series - is operated in partnership with the French space agency (CNES) from the Centre Spatial de Toulouse

Columbus lab - is operated in partnership with the German Aerospace Center from Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Proba-1 - is operated from the ESTRACK ground station at Redu, Belgium

Proba-2 - is operated from the ESTRACK ground station at Redu, Belgium.

SMOS - experts from ESA's Spaceflight and Operations team are responsible for SMOS payload operations from ESA's ESAC Establishment; the mission is operated on behalf of ESA by the French space agency (CNES) from Toulouse.

ESA partner missions operated elsewhere

The missions below are operated in cooperation with partner agencies at locations in France, Germany and the USA.

Name Description Operated by

ISS International Space Station NASA (USA) / ROSCOSMOS (Russia)

SOHO Solar observations NASA (USA)
Hubble Space Telescope Orbiting observatory NASA (USA)

Last update: 9 September 2011

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