The FIRST! Sustainability Online Pitch Day will take place on 25 June, bringing together key stakeholders to shape a more sustainable European space transportation...
The Future Space Transportation Autumn Session will take place on 29 October 2025 in Paris, advancing Europe’s independent, resilient, and commercially viable space transportation...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is investing in technologies for reusability to secure Europe’s long-term autonomy and competitiveness in space transportation. At the 2025...
Participants discuss their projects at the FLPP Spring Session on 2 April 2025 The future of European space transportation depends on lighter, reusable, and...
At the recent Space Community Days event, Géraldine Naja, ESA’s Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Competitiveness, delivered a compelling overview of the agency’s achievements...
FIRST! stands for Future Innovation Research in Space Transportation and is an initiative of the ESA’s programme for future space transportation, FLPP. FIRST! contributes...
As ESA’s FLPP programme drives forward its ambition to strengthen Europe’s future space transportation capabilities through de-risking innovation at speed, delegates at the Future...
On 2 April, the European Space Agency’s Future Space Transportation Spring Session brought together ESA experts, Member State delegations, and space transportation users and...
On 30 January, the FIRST! Reusability Pitch Day, part of the European Space Agency’s future space transportation programme FLPP, virtually brought together space transportation...
The European Space Agency’s third session of the In-Space Transportation Club united nearly 300 participants from national space agencies and industry as well as...
The European Space Agency’s future space transportation programme, FLPP, is advancing the future of European space transportation. The goal is ambitious: a reusable, interoperable...
The European Space Agency’s directors will be featured in the “Fly Me to the Moon” webinar series with the European Business Angels Network (EBAN),...
Steer the future of in-orbit transportation Join ESA’s In-Space Transportation Club for Session #3 on 13 February 2025 from 14:00 – 16:30 CET. This...
The FIRST! Reusability Online Pitch Day will take place on January 30, 2025, and will gather key actors to discuss advancing Space Transportation reusability...
We are delighted to invite you to join our upcoming ESA Future Space Transportation Spring Session, which will be held on 2 April 2025 at...
On 20 November, ESA placed contracts with ArianeGroup to continue the demonstration of the Prometheus engine and reusable rocket stage demonstrator Themis. The contract...
On 9 October 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) held the ESA Future Space Transportation Award Ceremony in Paris, bringing together around 150 in-person...
Held from 28 to 30 October at the ECSAT Centre in Harwell, UK, the 1st International Symposium on Small Launchers and Spaceports 2024 is...
9 October 2024 – Join us in shaping the future space transportation ecosystem ESA is welcoming you to attend the upcoming FLPP Space Transportation...
9 October 2024 – Join us in shaping the future space transportation ecosystem ESA is welcoming you to attend the upcoming FLPP Space Transportation...
The In-Space Transportation Club: a collaborative platform for innovation On 11 June 2024, ESA concluded the second session of the In-Space Transportation Club, a...
Driving Europe’s commercial space missions On 9 July 2024, ESA successfully launched Europe’s newest rocket, Ariane 6, marking a significant step forward for Europe’s...
ESA is guiding the development of advanced docking technologies to create a European space transportation ecosystem. Two groundbreaking docking systems, ASSIST Pro from GMV...
The Moon is viewed as a critical and strategic outpost for space exploration. With its proximity to Earth, it offers unique opportunities for developing...
ESA is enabling the future: an ecosystem with a scalable, modular in-space transportation fleet based on optimised reusable launchers. In such an ecosystem, reusable...
From 20 to 22 March 2024, ESA’s Future Space Transportation preparation programme (Future Launchers Preparatory Programme – FLPP) hosted the ESA Space Transportation Pitch...
Join the ESA Space Transportation Pitch Week: a series of on-line events exploring new technological concepts for space transportation ESA’s Future Space Transportation team...
The Flight Ticket Initiative is a joint initiative of the European Commission and the European Space Agency for European companies or organisations to test...
In alignment with the necessary reusable transportation systems to achieve routine access to space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the THRUST! and...
Following ESA’s objective for Transformation, a new FIRST! campaign for avionics and GNC has been launched FIRST! stands for ‘’Future Innovation Research in Space...
ESA’s In-Space Transportation Club Webinar Session #1: Docking 21 February 2024 14:00 – 16:30 CET We are excited to announce our upcoming ESA In-Space...
On 16 January 2024, the European Space Agency, innovators and industry leaders gathered at ESA Headquarters Nikis in Paris to celebrate groundbreaking technological proposals...
This webinar session will provide an overview and introduction to the Embodied Intelligence for Space Transportation (EI4ST) campaign recently released on ESA OSIP, and provide a...
ESA FIRST! Award Ceremony 16 January 2024 17:30 – 20:30 ESA Headquarters Nikis 8-10 rue Mario Nikis 70015 Paris We are excited to present...
Join this event to learn how to deliver Maas solution, the benefits and challenges, emerging trends, recent developments, business and service models, and the...
Following ESA’s objective for Transformation, a FIRST! campaign has been launched! FIRST! (which stands for Future Innovation Research in Space Transportation) is an initiative...
Join COSMIC LFAM ESA Grand Challenge, become a key player in space manufacturing and win a 100,000 EUR prize A leader in large-scale...
The European Space Agency Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (ESA-FLPP) is commencing the “PROTEIN” investigation about European reusable and cost-effective heavy lift transport. This study...
The boom of NewSpace and its start-up ecosystem, alongside the evolution of the space market linked to constellations (LEO) and to new destinations (Moon,...
