Press Event
Information session from ESA’s 322nd Council in Paris
ESA Headquarters, Paris
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Swiss ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun will give an update on the roll-out of decisions taken at the Space Summit in Seville, including the implications for space transportation and progress towards enabling a European commercial provider to deliver supplies to the International Space Station by 2028 and return cargo to Earth. The evolution of the European Spaceport in Kourou will also be covered.
Furthermore, the briefing will address upcoming, high-level political meetings on space and international cooperation projects that ESA runs with partners around the globe, as well as ESA’s contribution to Poland’s Earth observation project “Country awareness mission in land analysis”.
Updates
hitura-nobad • Dec. 12, 2023, 2:23 p.m.
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