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ESA is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

For half a century, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been serving Europe as its space agency and inspiring its citizens. On 30 May 1975, the ESA Convention was signed by 10 founding Member States and has since now expanded to 23 Member States, three Associate Members, one Cooperating State and Cooperation Agreements with four other EU states. This anniversary year provides the opportunity to reflect not only on ESA’s past achievements, but even more so on its future perspectives.

50 years of ESA
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Life story of the ESA logo

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Launch of Vega VV20
Enabling & Support

ESA’s Vega rocket marks ten years with countdown to more po…

11/02/2022 3760 views 55 likes
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Soyuz launch site
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Ten years of Soyuz at Europe’s Spaceport

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Launch STS-100
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20 years of Europeans on the Space Station

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ESA/HAEU working  group 2019
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ESA and European University Institute sign new contract for…

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Portugal signing ESA Convention
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Portugal marks 20 years in ESA

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Flag of Hungary
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Marking five years of Hungary in ESA

04/11/2020 1700 views 2 likes
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International Charter celebrates 20th anniversary
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International Charter for disasters 20 years on

22/10/2020 961 views 2 likes
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Jacques Louet
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Remembering Jacques Louet (1947-2020)

21/08/2020 996 views 17 likes
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Library of ESA-related books
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Books still matter

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COS-B, 1975-1982, Europe's pioneer gamma-ray observatory
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ESA’s ‘first’ satellite: COS-B

07/08/2020 10330 views 94 likes
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Four-satellite Cluster mission
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Cluster’s 20 years of studying Earth’s magnetosphere

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Forty-five years of the ESA Convention

30/05/2020 4656 views 61 likes
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Jacques Blamont and Reimar Lust
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Blamont and Lüst: two greats of European space research

29/05/2020 748 views 1 likes
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Jean-Marie Luton
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Jean-Marie Luton, 1942-2020

17/04/2020 3317 views 59 likes
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Reimar Lüst
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Professor Reimar Lüst, 1923-2020

02/04/2020 2838 views 71 likes
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Al Worden
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Apollo astronaut Al Worden, 1932-2020

19/03/2020 1590 views 4 likes
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Dr René Collette,
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Dr René Collette, 1936-2020

11/03/2020 1354 views 37 likes
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Leonov spacewalk
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Alexei Leonov, the first spacewalker, passes away

11/10/2019 7099 views 48 likes
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Sigmund Jähn
Science & Exploration

ESA mourns passing of first German cosmonaut

23/09/2019 7341 views 111 likes
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Aldrin setting up the Solar Wind Composition Experiment
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Europeans in Apollo: First flag on the Moon?

19/07/2019 10804 views 93 likes
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Valeriano Claros Guerra
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Europeans in Apollo: The Spanish dish

18/07/2019 2131 views 5 likes
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Members of Expedition 60 pose with their Soyuz launcher
Science & Exploration

Europe celebrates a launch and a landing

17/07/2019 2172 views 17 likes
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Aldrin setting up the Solar Wind Composition Experiment
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First 'flag' on the Moon?

17/07/2019 25089 views 13 likes
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Apollo 11 crew
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On this day: 50 years ago

16/07/2019 7021 views 6 likes
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Pat Norris
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Europeans in Apollo: 'The pathfinder'

15/07/2019 1685 views 5 likes
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Fly me to the Moon poster
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'Fly me to the Moon': marking the 50th anniversary of the f…

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Apollo 11 laser experiment installation - Keith Wright
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Europeans in Apollo: The Wright Stuff

12/07/2019 2147 views 6 likes
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Peter Creola
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Peter Creola, 1940-2019

29/04/2019 2611 views 18 likes
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COPERS meeting 1960
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A digital record of the European space pioneers

26/04/2019 1577 views 5 likes
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A virtually cloud-free Europe captured by MSG
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ESA Historical Archives go digital

26/04/2019 2322 views 5 likes
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Harry Atkinson
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Dr Harry Atkinson, 1929-2018

15/02/2019 1729 views 2 likes
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Artemis FM testing in ESTEC
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ESA’s 25 years of telecom: marking a milestone

12/11/2018 3425 views 66 likes
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Ariane 5 V243 100th launch - 2
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Ariane 5: the story behind the 100 launches...

26/09/2018 8660 views 6 likes
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ESRIN inauguration
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESRIN

21/09/2018 2766 views 8 likes
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Sigmund Jähn
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Sigmund Jähn: the first German in space

23/08/2018 7886 views 2 likes
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John Young and Ulf Merbold
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Ulf Merbold: remembering John Young (1930-2018)

22/08/2018 3473 views 14 likes
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ESA DG at Unispace50
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Fifty years of UNISPACE

20/06/2018 1302 views 2 likes
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Per Tegnér
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Per Tegnér, 1944-2018

05/06/2018 3068 views 45 likes
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Walter Thiebaut, 1945-2018

04/05/2018 1271 views 5 likes
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ESTEC 50th anniversary event
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESTEC

05/04/2018 2335 views 1 likes
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Veronique launch, 9 April 1968
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CSG at 50: half a century of Europe's Spaceport

05/04/2018 3352 views 5 likes
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ESTEC today
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ESTEC looking to the next decades…

03/04/2018 1610 views 3 likes
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Princess Beatrix at the inauguration of ESTEC 1968
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Fifty years of ESTEC, the heart of Europe's space research

03/04/2018 2763 views 4 likes
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ESTEC 50 brochure cover
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ESA BR-339 Place for Space

03/04/2018 16537 views 180 likes
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Stephen Hawking in weightlessness
Science & Exploration

Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018

16/03/2018 13794 views 248 likes
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Jean Pierre Causse
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Jean-Pierre Causse, 1926-2018

14/03/2018 1579 views 1 likes
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Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
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Marking five years of Poland in ESA

22/11/2017 2115 views 2 likes
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Meteosat-1 launch
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Forty years of Meteosat

22/11/2017 6960 views 113 likes
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Aurora artist view
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Latest Space Conference programme now online

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