ESMATS 2021
19th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium
Online - Organised by ESA.
21st - 24th September, 2021
SPONSORS
Sponsoring and Exhibiting at ESMATS 2021
As with previous ESMATS there will be opportunities to sponsor the event and for equipment suppliers / related organisations to have an exhibition stand. As a sponsor your company logo will appear on the esmats.eu website along with company and product / service details – an ideal opportunity to promote your company and its products / services to a uniquely targeted audience. If you would like to sponsor ESMATS2021 or are interested in exhibiting your products / services / company at ESMATS2021 please contact us at lionel.gaillard@esa.int. We look forward to welcoming you to ESMATS 2021.
The European Space Agency (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Formed in 1973, when a Ministerial Conference in the Hague approved a highly ambitious space programme to carry the European space effort into the new millennium.
Since the last ESMATS, Ariane 5 successfully completed its 100th launch and has an order book stretching into 2022. BepiColombo, Metop-C, EDRS_C, CHEOPS and Solar Orbitor have all been successfully launched. XMM-Newton has successfully completed 20 years in orbit and continues to provide ground breaking science; its sister spacecraft INTEGRAL, launched in October 2002 is also still operational and SOHO launched in December 1995 has completed 25 years of successful sun observation and comet spotting. The Cluster II satellites launched in the summer of 2000 are also still operational after 20 years in orbit.
ESA member states
ESA has 22 Member States; Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Further to the 22 Member States, Canada and Slovenia, based on their agreements with ESA, also qualify to fully participate in the programmes of the ESA Education Office. Seven other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can 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’s purpose shall be to provide for, and to promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European States in space research and technology and their space applications, with a view to their being used for scientific purposes and for operational space applications systems:
- by elaborating and implementing a long-term European space policy, by recommending space objectives to the Member States, and by concerting the policies of the Member States with respect to other national and international organisations and institutions;
- by elaborating and implementing activities and programmes in the space field;
- by coordinating the European space programme and national programmes, and by integrating the latter progressively and as completely as possible into the European space programme, in particular as regards the development of applications satellites;
- by elaborating and implementing the industrial policy appropriate to its programme and by recommending a coherent industrial policy to the Member States.
Contact details:
Website: www.esa.int
