About ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA), formed on 31 May 1975.
Itcumrently has 14 Member States: Austria, Belgium. Denmark
ance, Germany, Ineland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Canada is
also. partner in some of the ESA programmes.
The ESA Science Pragramme has launched a series of Innovative
and successful missions. Highlights of the prograrame Include:
Giotto, which took the first oseup pictures of a
met nucleus (Halley) and completed fybys of Comets
and Grigg Skjellerup.
Hipparcos, whicn nied the postions of the stars far
Fe accurately than ever before and changed
astronomers’ ideas about the scale of the local Universe
ISO, whieh studies
aimospheres, E
coo! gas clouds and planetary
rywhete it looked It found water in
surprising abundance
SOHO, whichis provicing new
atmosphere and intefior. revealing salar tarnadaes and
the probable cause
ws oF the Sun's
Ulysses, ine trst spacecraft o fy aver tne Sunt
poles
Hubble Space Telescope. a caliateratian
with NASA. on the world’s most important and
successful orbital observatory,
¢ to land on the mysterious surface
gest moon, Titan in 2004, Part of the
international CCLUSTER-I:
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