With activities planned throughout the day, the event will be headlined by talks from German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers, as well as the attendance of ESA’s Director General Josef Aschbacher. ESTEC will also exhibit a dedicated ‘NL Space’ tent, where a number of Dutch space companies and institutions developing some very exciting projects - such as Tropomi, a world-class instrument to observe climate change and air pollution from space – will be presenting their cutting-edge work.
This year’s event will follow the theme of “Accelerating Space” and will serve as both the conclusion of The Space Week - which sees eight days of activities across The Netherlands – and as part of the Dutch Science Weekend. ESTEC’s visitor centre, Space Expo, will also be hosting a day-long space festival to celebrate space exploration as well as the art, music, and culture that stems from it.
Media attendees will have the opportunity throughout the event to interview select spokespersons, as well as to attend talks and presentations by ESA astronauts, space scientists, and engineers. Journalists will be able to meet the teams behind some of the most exciting ESA initiatives and will have a chance to visit ESTEC’s laboratories, as well as hear about ESA’s missions from the talented experts that are making them happen.
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If you would like to attend the ESTEC Open Day as a media representative, please fill out the following form before Friday 30 September: https://blogs.esa.int/forms/esa-media-briefing-form/
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The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, 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. Latvia , Lithuania and Slovenia are Associate Members.
ESA has established formal cooperation with five Member States of the EU : Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia. 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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