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

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Four-satellite Cluster mission
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Cluster’s 20 years of studying Earth’s magnetosphere

07/08/2020 1661 views 0 likes
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Forty-five years of the ESA Convention

30/05/2020 4634 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 737 views 1 likes
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Jean-Marie Luton
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Jean-Marie Luton, 1942-2020

17/04/2020 3305 views 59 likes
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Reimar Lüst
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Professor Reimar Lüst, 1923-2020

02/04/2020 2829 views 71 likes
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Al Worden
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Apollo astronaut Al Worden, 1932-2020

19/03/2020 1541 views 4 likes
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Dr René Collette,
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Dr René Collette, 1936-2020

11/03/2020 1337 views 37 likes
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Leonov spacewalk
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Alexei Leonov, the first spacewalker, passes away

11/10/2019 6950 views 48 likes
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Sigmund Jähn
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ESA mourns passing of first German cosmonaut

23/09/2019 7300 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 10678 views 93 likes
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Valeriano Claros Guerra
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Europeans in Apollo: The Spanish dish

18/07/2019 2079 views 5 likes
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Members of Expedition 60 pose with their Soyuz launcher
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Europe celebrates a launch and a landing

17/07/2019 2147 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 24882 views 13 likes
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Apollo 11 crew
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On this day: 50 years ago

16/07/2019 6970 views 6 likes
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Pat Norris
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Europeans in Apollo: 'The pathfinder'

15/07/2019 1643 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…

15/07/2019 5189 views 17 likes
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Apollo 11 laser experiment installation - Keith Wright
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Europeans in Apollo: The Wright Stuff

12/07/2019 2117 views 6 likes
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Peter Creola
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Peter Creola, 1940-2019

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COPERS meeting 1960
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A digital record of the European space pioneers

26/04/2019 1559 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 2300 views 5 likes
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Harry Atkinson
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Dr Harry Atkinson, 1929-2018

15/02/2019 1703 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 3371 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 8568 views 6 likes
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ESRIN inauguration
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESRIN

21/09/2018 2748 views 8 likes
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Sigmund Jähn
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Sigmund Jähn: the first German in space

23/08/2018 7810 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 3420 views 14 likes
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ESA DG at Unispace50
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Fifty years of UNISPACE

20/06/2018 1284 views 2 likes
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Per Tegnér
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Per Tegnér, 1944-2018

05/06/2018 3051 views 45 likes
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Walter Thiebaut, 1945-2018

04/05/2018 1263 views 5 likes
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ESTEC 50th anniversary event
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ESA celebrates 50 years of ESTEC

05/04/2018 2320 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 3314 views 5 likes
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ESTEC today
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ESTEC looking to the next decades…

03/04/2018 1592 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 2726 views 4 likes
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ESTEC 50 brochure cover
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ESA BR-339 Place for Space

03/04/2018 16379 views 179 likes
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Stephen Hawking in weightlessness
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Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018

16/03/2018 13748 views 247 likes
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Jean Pierre Causse
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Jean-Pierre Causse, 1926-2018

14/03/2018 1548 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 2102 views 2 likes
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Meteosat-1 launch
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Forty years of Meteosat

22/11/2017 6928 views 113 likes
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Aurora artist view
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Latest Space Conference programme now online

13/11/2017 533 views 0 likes
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Launch of Cassini-Huygens
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Anniversary of the launch of Cassini-Huygens

13/10/2017 3829 views 5 likes
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Sputnik launch
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Sputnik – 60 years of the space age

03/10/2017 12304 views 112 likes
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Cassini grand finale
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Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn

15/09/2017 32467 views 217 likes
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ESOC control room 1969
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Happy birthday ESOC

07/09/2017 5989 views 50 likes
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Cassini grand finale
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Celebrating Europe’s science highlights with Cassini

06/09/2017 8590 views 90 likes
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Aurora artist view
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Appel a contributions : Projet histoire de l'ESA

19/07/2017 3161 views 7 likes
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ESA Bulletin 7 (Nov. 1976)
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50 years of ESOC: Treasures from the archives

10/07/2017 1158 views 4 likes
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Aurora artist view
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Call for contributions: ESA History Project (deadline exten…

15/06/2017 3582 views 4 likes
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ESOC50 logo horizontal
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Long Night of the Stars to celebrate ESOC's 50th birthday

07/06/2017 2885 views 7 likes
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ESRO-2B on launcher
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First ESRO satellite in space

17/05/2017 9112 views 11 likes
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