European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, with 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000 with an annual budget of about €4.28 billion / US$5.51 billion (2013).

ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station programme, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. The main European launch vehicle Ariane 5 is operated through Arianespace with ESA sharing in the costs of launching and further developing this launch vehicle.

Its facilities are distributed among the following 5 research centres:

  • ESA science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands;
  • 9950 ESA

    9950 ESA is an Amor asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.81 years.

    Discovered on November 8, 1990 by C. Pollas it was given the provisional designation "1990 VB". It was later renamed "ESA" after the European Space Agency.

    References

    External links

  • 9950 ESA at the JPL Small-Body Database
  • Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters
  • European System of Accounts

    The European System of Accounts (ESA) is the system of national accounts and regional accounts used by members of the European Union. It was most recently updated in 2010 (ESA 2010).

    The ESA 95 is fully consistent with the United Nations System of National Accounts (1993 SNA) in definitions, accounting rules and classifications. However, it incorporates certain differences, particularly in its presentation, that are more in line with use within the European Union. The ESA 95 is undergoing a revision to meet the requirements of the update of the SNA 1993 launched in 2003 under the auspices of the United Nations.

    See also

  • Value added
  • Capital account
  • Balance of payments
  • Gross output
  • Net output
  • Gross national income in the European Union
  • References

  • Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community, the annex contains the whole ESA95
  • European Commission (1996). "European System of Accounts ESA 1995" Eurostat, Brussels-Luxembourg,1996, xx + 383 pp.
  • Podcasts:

    ESA

    ALBUMS

    Incroci

    Released 2013

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    ALBUMS

    ESA

    Moire.Minima

    Released 2007
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