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class="builder-text-content"> <h2>European Space Agency</h2> <figure id="attachment_42473" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-42473" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-42473 size-medium" src="https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/rosetta-2016-03-27-500x500.jpg" alt="Rosetta's comet on 27 March 2016 (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0)" width="500" height="500" srcset="https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/rosetta-2016-03-27-500x500.jpg 500w, https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/rosetta-2016-03-27-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/rosetta-2016-03-27-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/rosetta-2016-03-27.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-42473" class="wp-caption-text">Rosetta’s comet on 27 March 2016 (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/">CC BY-SA IGO 3.0</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.</p> <p>ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, 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. Canada takes part in some projects under a Cooperation agreement. Slovenia signed an Association Agreement on 5 July 2015.</p> <p>Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovak Republic are ‘European Cooperating States’. Other countries have signed cooperation agreements with ESA.</p> <p>By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.</p> <p><video controls="controls" width="100%" height="auto"><source src="http://wpc.50e6.edgecastcdn.net/8050E6/mmedia-http/download/public/videos/2012/10/029/1210_029_AR_EN.mp4" type="video/mp4" />Your browser does not support the video tag.</video></p> <p>ESA’s job is to draw up the European space programme and carry it through. ESA’s programmes are designed to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to develop satellite-based technologies and services, and to promote European industries. ESA also works closely with space organisations outside Europe.</p> <figure id="attachment_39781" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-39781" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/m-esa-02.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-39781" src="https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/m-esa-02-257x300.jpg" alt="Artist's impression of the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope in its orbit 600 km above the Earth" width="500" height="583" srcset="https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/m-esa-02-257x300.jpg 257w, https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/m-esa-02-768x896.jpg 768w, https://www.eiroforum.org/wp-content/uploads/m-esa-02-878x1024.jpg 878w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-39781" class="wp-caption-text">Artist’s impression of the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope in its orbit 600 km above the Earth (Credit: ESA)</figcaption></figure> <p>ESA’s headquarters are in Paris which is where policies and programmes are decided. ESA also has sites in a number of European countries, each of which has different responsibilities: EAC, the European Astronauts Centre in Cologne, Germany; ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, in Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain; ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany; ESRIN, the ESA centre for Earth Observation, in Frascati, near Rome, Italy; ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, the Netherlands and ECSAT, the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications, Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.</p> <p>ESA also has liaison offices in Belgium, USA and Russia; a launch base in French Guiana and ground/tracking stations in various parts of the world.</p> <p>ESA’s mandatory activities (space science programmes and the general budget) are funded by a financial contribution from all the Agency’s Member States, calculated in accordance with each country’s gross national product. 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