THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY UNITED SPACE IN EUROPE

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

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

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.

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

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

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%, 513.1 M€ Basic Activities 4.1%, 234.8 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%, 222.3 M€ Human Spaceflight & Robotic Exploration 11.0%, 633.0 M€ Earth Observation* 26.9%, 1,543.3 M€ Telecom & Integrated Applications* 5.6%, 319.0 M€ Technology Support* 2.0%, 114.3 M€ European Cooperating States Agreements 0.1%, 5.5 M€ Space Situational Awareness 0.3%, 15.1 M€

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.

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

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