Full disclosure | European Space Agency |
Code | ESA |
Participating countries | Austria (AUT), Belgium (BEL), CZE, DNK, Finland (FIN), France (FRA), DEU, GRC, IRE, Italy (ITA), LUZ, NLD, Norway (NOR), Poland (POL), PRT, ROU, ESP, Sweden (SWE), CHE, GBR |
WWW | http://www.esa.int, https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency, https://twitter.com/esa, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBaDdAbGlFDeS33shmlD0A |
Wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency |
Type | Multinational |
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.