What Happened To The European Space Agency?

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Europe is home to some of the most advanced science and technology in the world, yet the average person is not too familiar with the European Space Agency. It seems like even private space companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are more well known today. But why? Well, the European Space Agency has always tended to play a background role within space. For instance, they developed Spacelab which was used extensively in the Space Shuttle. Similarly, they have launched a variety of probes and satellites around the earth as well as other planets. Aside from this, the ESA has its own rocket program called the Ariane program which has helped the ESA launch a plethora of their own satellites. This video explains the various feats the ESA has accomplished throughout its lifetime and why the ESA is so underrated.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - ESA Falling Behind
0:51 - The Origin Of The ESA
3:25 - Spacelab
4:38 - Ariane Program
5:53 - Hermes Spacecraft
7:16 - Multiplanetary Missions
7:55 - The Irrelevancy Of The ESA

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[arthemis]

Actually, ESA has a bigger budget than Roscosmos, making it the second space agency in the world. Also, unfortunately Roscosmos is mostly focused on Soyuz to the ISS, and a bit dying. IN the meantime, ESA has it's own GPS system (Galileo), went to comets (Rosetta), Mars surveillance (MARS TGO), soon to be Mars rover (2022 Rosalyn Franklin), astronautss, fully independant space access (Kourou Space Center in French Guiana), plenty of Earth observation satelites. One thing is that it is mainly ran by France (with the CNES as space agency) and Germany (with DLR), which means many military and political programs are out of the realm of the ESA and managed by member states

[_d_ghosh_]

You should have talked about ESA's Rosseta and BepiColombo missions. Anyway, great video.

[jakubmrocek]

I think the ESA being overlooked by the public is mostly due to it's multi-national nature, lower funding and a lack of interest in space in europe. Me as a european, I feel like we are lagging behind in the space field, and it a shame that we're doing nothing to catch up.

[florinshc]

ESA is more focused in environmental sattelites, than in exploring the space...in that way ESA is more in the practical side and less in the adventure side. And also it doesn t have such a big budget as NASA.

[michelbruns]

didnt know the esa did so much, probably because of the usual "ignoring everything that is not usa" thingy

[adamabele]

You have forgotten one big and most important part where ESA stands out: Science projects. Many of ESAs achievements are in science and technology and very valuable. ESA has its own Deep Space Network and contributed many instruments to NASA missions. ESA never had its own manned space ships and that is why people think that ESA is behind, which can´t be further from the truth. Have you ever heard about Planck, Herschel, Exosat, Hipparcos, Beppicolombo, Gaia, Artemis, Lisa pathfinder, Cheops, Integral, XMM-Newton and so many more? ESA contributed to the Hubble Space Telescope and many of the famous Hubble Photos were taken by ESA instruments. ESA is also a partner on the James Webb Space Telescope.

[ImieNazwiskoOK]

Funfact:
In "America" returning to Moon service module of Orion is from ESA

[thelordposeidon]

Just a pet peave of mine, as someone who has lived with ESA (family work there) all my life, no one calls it "The E.S.A", everyone just says ESA (pronounced like the name "Isa").

As a side note I had a metal toy Orion rocket growing up, awesome thing xD

[vilmospalik]

blue origin doing more than the ESA, you've got the whole squad laughing

[anmolpatel]

Is nobody going to say how ESA managed to land first on an asteroid ? Their failure to land on Mars is over emphasized

[slueccroll]

Europe landed a probe on a meteorite once, by launching it, swinging the probe arround the moon, then arround mars, then arround earth and then swung it towards a comet

[maxar]

ESA Usually helps nasa with their project, but the U.S. takes all the credit and doesn't give esa the attention they need, so unusual that the Americans take all the credit.

[frankwitte]

I think the only major feat of ESA that you tragically left out was the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet!

[Lucas-khle]

Can you make a Video about all the probes ESA is launching. I researched a lot about this and I think that the probes are the best we got out there. Especially the Stuff that goes beyond Moon and Mars is very intresting.

[jetaddicted]

You want to do something around ESA’s Themis, Prometheus and Callisto projects; all aimed at mastering reusability, and ultimately helping figure out the Ariane Next.

[jeffkelley]

Your title query, "What Happened to the European Space Agency?" raises a relevant question. From my perspective, government agencies are unfairly bound by political interference rather than long-term objectives and funding. Governments are driven by, in the free world, popular opinion with regards to elections. Yet, the elected leaders often mislead the public and follow their own objectives after they enter office.
I learned a lot about ESA when they became involved in the NASA Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan. They played a minor part in the Huygens probe. Still, it was interesting to study how much effort was placed into what appeared to be simple technology - on the surface. In actuality, it was a complicated compilation of Engineering.
ESA does not receive the credit they deserve for their contributions. For example, SpaceX is at the top of my list of innovations in Space Exploration. The reason being they are a private company and aren't nearly as shackled by government intervention. In fact, without their innovation, we would still depend upon Russia to hitch a ride to the ISS. ESA would fare well by involving themselves more with private organizations.
You provided great coverage, although a bit hurried. Howbeit, comprehensive and presented under the usual time constraints of short videos. Great job! Jeff

[johnl.]

They value good social services and other causes (like environment) more.

[eugeniopsp]

The different ESA headquarters exist because bigger states wants geographic return, they later specialised in different programs according to the project the nation of interest was opted in

[stonegamessm]

i want to work for space x but i live in the netherlands i realy hope that eventualy everyone can work there even if they not live in the us

[seahacklabs]

Because comparable to its size, they still haven’t got anything remarkable to show the world. Whereas Indian space agency with literally a tenth of esa budget is far more advanced technically and working on it’s own crew mission.