ESA HQ Mario-Nikis
8-10 rue Mario Nikis
F-75738 Paris Cedex
15
France
tel: +33 1 53 69 76 54
fax: +33 1 15 36 97
560
email: contactesa@esa.int
url: http://www.esa.int
Jean-Jacques Dordain: Director
General
Franco Ongaro: Director of Technical and Quality Management
(D/TEC)
Thomas Reiter: Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations
(D/HSO)
Antonio Fabrizi: Director of Launchers (D/LAU)
Eric Morel de
Westgaver: Director for Procurement, Financial Operations and Legal Affairs
(D/PFL)
Gaele Winters: Director of Corporate Reforms (D/CR)
Volker
Liebig: Director of Earth Observation (D/EOP)
Didier Faivre: Director of the
Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities (D/NAV)
Alvaro
Giménez Cañete: Director of Science and Robotic Exploration
(D/SRE)
Magali Vaissiere: Director of Telecommunications and Integrated
Applications (D/TIA)
Hans Georg Mockel: Director of Human Resources,
Facility Management and Informatics (D/HFI)
Giuseppe Morsillo: Director for
ESA Policies, Planning and Control (D/PPC)
ESA HQ-Daumesnil
52 rue Jacques Hillairet
Paris
75012
France
tel: +33 1 53 69 76 54
fax: +33 1 15 36 97 560
For several decades Europe has been actively involved in spaceflight.
Since 1975, ESA has been pooling the resources of its Member States to build a
European space capability in order to undertake programmes and activities far
beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA develops the
launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the
forefront of global space activities. Today it launches satellites for Earth
observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the
far reaches of the Solar System, and cooperates in the human exploration of
space.
ESA has 19 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the
United Kingdom. Canada also sits on the ESA Council and takes part in certain
programmes under a cooperation agreement. Hungary, Poland, Estonia and Slovenia
participate in a Plan for European Cooperating States and other countries are
currently under discussions to join this initiative.
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