Launchers

The European Commission and the European Space Agency are jointly offering flight ticket opportunities for European companies or organisations to co-fund the launch services to test your new satellite technologies in space.

Image: Ariane 5 rocket for the Juice launch being transferred to the final assembly building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for payload integration and last preparation for flight VA260

Image: Ariane 5 rocket for the Juice launch being transferred to the final assembly building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for payload integration and last preparation for flight VA260

ESA and CNES invite space and non-space companies from all European Member, Associate and Cooperating States to support the digital modernisation of several activities at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

European private sector companies developing commercial space transportation services are invited to submit proposals to ESA for co-funding and access to the space agency’s expertise and facilities. This new Boost! programme call for proposals is open through 2025, and follows a successful […]

Image: Launcher booster on top of a platform running along rails, pulled by a lorry. The image is taken outdoors, the sky is cloudy, in the foreground is a path and some trees

Image: Part of an Ariane 5 launcher in a large warehouse

Image: Part of a launcher inside a room that looks like a warehouse

ESA’s mission to explore Jupiter and its largest moons has safely arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, where final preparations for its April launch are now underway.The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – better known as Juice – arrived on 8 February at Félix Eboué airport in Cayenne […]

Swiss start-up Coactum is to press ahead with development of its in-space transportation service to bring small satellites into their targeted orbital destinations, with support from ESA’s Boost! programme.