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Also Known As Agence Spatiale Européenne • ASE • ESA
Date 1975 - present
Headquarters Paris
Areas Of Involvement space exploration • Automated Transfer Vehicle
Related People Jessica Meir • Pedro Duque • Wubbo Ockels • Rodolfo Neri Vela • Ulf Merbold

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Antennas at the European Space Agency's Redu ground station, Ardennes, Belg.
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Ger.
The Giotto space probe, developed and launched by the European Space Agency for a flyby of Halley's Comet in 1986.
European Space Agency officials tracking Mars Express and Beagle 2 from the main control room of the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Ger.
Space exploration and the European Space Agency
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by Rosetta spacecraft
first photograph taken on a comet's surface
The European Space Agency's Venus Express launch rocket prior to liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The craft launched on Nov. 9, 2005, and arrived at Venus on April 11, 2006.
Rosetta spacecraft
The plan to protect Earth from hazardous asteroids
Witness the landing of the ESA's Philae space probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first spacecraft to land on a comet
Explaining the smelly secrets of outer space
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