The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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Astronauts on board the International Space Station repaired one of the Station's solar arrays during the fourth spacewalk of the STS-120 mission. Two tears – one around 80-cm length and a second smaller one – appeared in one of the P6 solar arrays during deployment earlier in the mission. Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Douglas Wheelock conducted the spacewalk.