N° 47–2022: ESA highlights in the last quarter of 2022
23 September 2022
A very busy end of the year 2022 lies ahead for ESA: the ESA Ministerial Council in Paris will take critical decisions for fostering the European space sector and bringing the benefits of space and its applications to citizens in Europe and worldwide. Furthermore, the results of ESA’s astronaut selection will be announced at the end of the Council.
Europe needs more geopolitical autonomy to play a role in the world and secure the welfare of Europeans. This is also true for space. ESA can achieve things that go beyond the capability of any single ESA Member State. Together European space is much stronger.
The list below gives media representatives an overview of the most important events on the agency’s agenda. Please note that the dates can be subject to change. ESA will inform about the precise dates closer to the actual events.
4th Quarter 2022:
Artemis-I launch
Date: Next launch dates, currently 27 September or 2 October
More information: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Artemis_I
ESA Day in cooperation with the Netherlands
ESA’s Open Day at ESTEC, the technical centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Date: 2 October 2022
ESA Day in cooperation with Spain
Media opportunities during the Big Science Business Forum (https://www.bsbf2020.org/), Granada
Date: 5 October 2022
ESA Day in cooperation with Poland
Ten years of Poland in ESA, Warsaw
Date: 27-28 October 2022
Samantha Cristoforetti’s return from the ISS
Date: first half of October 2022
Latest updates on the Exploration blog:
https://blogs.esa.int/exploration/category/astronauts/samantha-cristoforetti/
End of ESA’s astronaut selection process: ESA introduces the new class of ESA astronauts
Date: 23 November 2022
More information:
www.esa.int/yourwaytospace
ESA Ministerial Council in Paris, France
Date: 22-23 November 2022
Launch of the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana
Date: December 2022
More information:
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation
Updates on launches and other events will also be published on the ESA Newsroom Calendar:
https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Calendar
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About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space.
ESA is an intergovernmental organization, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Slovenia, Latvia and Lithuania are Associate Members.
ESA has established formal cooperation with five Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. It is working in particular with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological missions.
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