1. THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
UNITED SPACE IN EUROPE

2. ESA facts and figures Over 50 years of experience 22 Member States
Eight sites/facilities in Europe, about 2300 staff
5.75 billion Euro budget (2017)
Over 80 satellites designed, tested and operated in flight

3. Article 2 of ESA Convention
Purpose of ESA
“To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology
and their space applications.”
Article 2 of ESA Convention

4. Member States
ESA has 22 Member States: 20 states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, HU, IE, LU, NL, PT, PL, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and Switzerland.
Seven other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia. Discussions are ongoing with Croatia.
Slovenia is an Associate Member.
Canada takes part in some programmes under a long-standing Cooperation Agreement.

5. Activities
space science
human spaceflight
exploration
ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity.
earth observation
launchers
navigation
* Space science is a Mandatory programme, all Member States contribute to it according to GNP. All other programmes are Optional, funded ‘a la carte’ by Participating States.
operations
technology
telecommunications

6. ESA’s locations ESA sites Offices ESA Ground Station + Offices
Salmijaervi (Kiruna)
Moscow
Brussels
ESTEC (Noordwijk)
ECSAT (Harwell)
Washington
EAC (Cologne)
Houston
Maspalomas
ESA HQ (Paris)
ESOC (Darmstadt)
Santa Maria
Oberpfaffenhofen
Kourou
Toulouse
New Norcia
Perth
Redu
Malargüe
ESA sites
ESAC (Madrid)
Cebreros
ESRIN (Rome)
Offices
ESA Ground Station + Offices
ESA Ground Station
ESA sites + ESA Ground Station

7. ESA budget for 2017: by domain
Navigation*
17.6%, 1,010.8 M€
Prodex
0.8%, 47.2 M€
Launchers*
18.9%, 1,088.4 M€
Space Science
8.9%, M€
Basic Activities
4.1%, M€
B€: Billion Euro
M€: Million Euro
*includes programmes implemented for other institutional partners
Budget 2017
5.75 B€
Associated with General Budget
3.9%, M€
Human Spaceflight
& Robotic Exploration
11.0%, M€
Earth Observation*
26.9%, 1,543.3 M€
Telecom & Integrated Applications*
5.6%, M€
Technology Support*
2.0%, M€
European Cooperating
States Agreements
0.1%, 5.5 M€
Space Situational Awareness
0.3%, 15.1 M€

8. ESA’s industrial policy
About 85% of ESA’s budget is spent on contracts with European industry.
ESA’s industrial policy:
Ensures that Member States get a fair return on their investment;
Improves competitiveness of European industry;
Maintains and develops space technology;
Exploits the advantages of free competitive bidding, except where incompatible with objectives of the industrial policy.

9. Science payload technology validation section
ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) / Science directorate / Future missions office
~ 20 people
1 laboratory and mechanics workshop: focused on payload/instrumentation aspects, mainly detectors and readout electronics
5 detector characterization benches: 2 Near-IR (Euclid, generic), 3 Visible (Gaia, generic, PLATO)
In support to Science missions from study to operation phase, we perform:
Performance specific studies (often related to radiation effects on detectors)
Technology validation, i.e. cross-validation of measurements performed in the industry, by scientific consortia
Generic technology development

10. ESA’s contribution to ESI2017
Space instrumentation overview
Technology Developments for ESA Science Missions with a focus on detectors
Space environment effects on ESA Science Missions
Highlight topic Gravitational Wave:
"LISA Pathfinder: technology demonstration for key components successfully concluded in-orbit over the last year” McNamara, Paul - LISA Pathfinder study scientist  
“LISA: Activities conducted for the preparation of the future space based gravitational wave detection system Laser Interferometer Space Array” Jennrich, Oliver - LISA study scientist