Launched: 2018 Mapping Earth's global wind fields
Launched: 2013 Innovative satellite telecommunications platform
Launch: 2025 ESA's ozone mission
Launch: 2024 Improving Arctic and global weather forecasts
Launched: 1998 First European experimental reentry vehicle
First launch: 1979 Commercial launcher securing Europe’s non-dependent space access
Launch: 2029 Performing a chemical census of a large and diverse sample of exoplanets by analysing their atmospheres
Launched: 2001 Technology demonstration for telecommunications
Launch: 2034 Probing the hot and energetic Universe
Launched: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Space truck for ISS resupply
Launch: 2018 Europe’s first mission to Mercury
Launch: 2023 Measuring forest biomass
Launch: 2019 Studying planets around other stars
Launched: 1996 (failed), 2000 Space plasma physics in 3D
Launched: 2008 Europe’s ISS research laboratory
First launch: 2014 A portfolio of operational Earth observation missions
Launched: 1975 Gamma-ray astronomy
Launched: 2005 (failed), 2010 Measuring polar-ice thickness
Launch: 2022 Studying the roles of clouds and aerosols in our climate
Launched: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 Operational European telecommunications satellites
First launch: 2016 Geostationary satellites for relaying satellite data
First launch: 2021 Europe's first electric-propulsion telecom satellite
Launched: 2002 10-instrument environmental satellite
Launched: 1991, 1995 Radar-based Earth observation
Launched: 1967 (failed), 1968, 1969, 1972 Scientific exploration of space’s particle and radiation environment
Launch: 2023 Charting dark matter and dark energy’s effects on the Universe
Launched: 1992 Reusable free-flying microgravity testbed
Launch: 2021 Robotic arm serving Russian segment of ISS
Launch: 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (2016) and Rosalind Franklin rover mission (launch date TBC)
Launched: 1983 X-ray astronomy
Launch: 2025 Global vegetation health
Launch: 2026 Measuring Earth's thermal radiation
Launched: 2013 Mission to map a billion local stars in 3D
First launch: 2011 Europe's global satellite navigation system
Launched: 1977, 1978 Probing dynamics of Earth’s magnetic field, waves and particles
Launched: 1985 Intercepting Comet Halley and Comet Grigg–Skjellerup
Launched: 2005, 2008 Technology demonstration for Galileo
Launched: 2009 Mapping Earth's gravity
Launched: 1968 & 1972 Probing Earth's magnetic field and the interplanetary medium
Launched: 2009 Far-infrared astronomy mission
Launched: 1989 Mapping the positions of more than 100 000 stars
Launched: 1990 ESA contributed solar arrays and Faint Object Camera
Launched: 1997 Surface probe of Saturn’s moon Titan
Launched: 2010 Broadband services in public-private partnership
Launched: 2002 Gamma-ray astronomy
Launched: 1977 Charting Sun–Earth relations and magnetic field
Launched: 1995 Infrared astronomy
Launched: 1978 Ultraviolet astronomy
Launched: 2015 Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
Launch: 2023 Europe's first mission to the Jupiter system
Launch: 2037 Observing gravitational waves from space
Launched: 2015 Technology demonstration for gravitational wave detection
Launched: 1981, 1982 (failed), 1984 Maritime telecommunications satellites
Launched: 2003 Europe's first Red Planet orbiter
Launched: 1977, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2012, 2015 First and second generation
Launched: 2006, 2012, 2018 Polar meteorological services
First launch: 2023 MetOp Second Generation
First launch: 2023 Meteosat Third Generation
First launch: 2019 Next-generation telecom satellite platform
Launched: 1989 Technology demonstration for telecommunications
Launched: 1977 (failed), 1978 Demonstrating technologies for telecommunications
Launched: 2009 Mapping the cosmic microwave background
Launch: 2026 Hunting planets beyond our Solar System
Launched: 2001, 2009, 2013 Technology demonstration microsatellites
First launch: 2019 The ‘chameleon’ telecom satellite
Launched: 2004 Deep space comet rendezvous mission
First launch: 2019 Microsatellites for identifying and tracking ships
First launch: 2017 New small platform for geostationary telecommunications
Launched: 2003 Experimental Moon mission
Launched: 2009 Measuring soil moisture and ocean salinity
Launched: 1995 Continuous observation of the Sun
Launch: 2020 Europe’s closest mission to the Sun
First launch: 2023 Europe’s reusable space transport system
First launched: 1983 Laboratory module for NASA’s Space Shuttle; 22 launches
Launched: 2013 Trio of satellites mapping Earth’s magnetic field
Launched: 1972 UV, X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy
Launched: 1990 Charting space above and below the Sun’s poles
First launch: 2012 Europe’s light satellite launcher
Launched: 2005 Europe’s first Venus orbiter
Launch: 2021 Seeing farther into the Universe than ever before
Launched: 1999 X-ray astronomy
Launch: 2020 Artificial intelligence for Earth observation