A summary of ESA's history. Chapters arranged as follows:
-ESRO (European Space Research organisation) and ELDO (European Launcher Development Organisation) 1964 establishment, stills;
-early scientific research sounding rockets: manufacture and testing of components, launches, telemetric processing;
-the first satellites: manufacture and testing, various images;
- the first ESRO satellite, launched by an American Scout launcher in 1967;
-manufacture and launch of ELDO's Europa from Woomera, Australia;
-development and construction of the European Space Research and TechnologyCentre (ESTEC) in Noordwick, the Netherlands;
-ESA headquarters, Paris, France;
-the European Operations Centre, ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany;
-ESRIN, the European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy;
-ESA telecommunications from the first Orbital Test Satellite, OTS, through the European Communications Satellite System, ECS, to Olympus;
-ESA's tracking station, REDU, Belgium;
-development and operation of Meteosat, Europe's primary

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