50 Years of Innovation and R&D at ESA

2025 is a year of celebrations, not only do we mark 50 years of the European Space Agency, we also mark 50 years of R&D innovations from the Agency's basic activities. The Technology Development Element (TDE) is one of the programme's that helps make future missions possible by predicting what technologies those missions will need and working on the technologies that will make them possible, today. 

You can read this brochure to learn more about some of the achievements TDE has made in the past half century and examine how those technologies are still in progress today.