Title
Poster entitled 'Rosetta'
Reference
ADS/G/02
Production date
2015 - 2015
Creator
- Airbus Defence and SpaceBiographyBiography
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of the Airbus Group responsible for its defence and space activities. It was formed in July 2013 during a restructuring of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company and was made up the former Airbus Military, Astrium and Cassidian divisions. It is made up of 4 divisions: Military Aircraft, Space Systems, Communications, Intelligence and Security, and Unmanned Aerial Systems, with a group headquarters in Taufkirchen, Germany. The company as a whole employs around 40,000 people based in 35 countries.
In March 2016 it sold its defence electronics business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the following year to Airbus Group as a whole was reorganised. This led to Airbus Defence and Space becoming an operating division of Airbus SE. In April 2022 DSI Datensicherheit was acquired.
Scope and Content
A poster giving information on the European Space Agency Rosetta mission.
Extent
1 item
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Associated people and organisations
- European Space AgencyBiographyBiography
The European Space Agency (ESA) was created in 1975, by the merging of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) and European Space Research Organisation (ESRO). ESA had ten founding member states: Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Today it is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space and headquartered in Paris. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station programme); the launch and operation of uncrewed exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. 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. The agency is also working with NASA to manufacture the Orion Spacecraft service module that will fly on the Space Launch System.
The European Space Agency Science Programme is a long-term programme of space science and space exploration missions.
Conditions governing access
Open Access
Conditions governing Reproduction
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