Robert Aubinière

Robert Aubinière.

Robert Aubinière (1912-2001) was a French military, born in Paris. He was director of CNES (1961-1972) and ELDO Secretaries General (1972-1975) (Director General of the European Space Agency).

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Public-sector space agencies

Africa

North Africa	ASAL NARRS CNCT

Sub-Saharan	GSSTC NASRDA SANSA

Americas

North America	CSA AEM NASA AFSPC NRO SMDC USSTRATCOM

South America	CONAE AEB DCTA INPE ITA CCE ABAE IVIC

Asia

East Asia	CNSA CALT CAST CCF CGWIC COSTIND JAXA ISAS NAL NASDA NICT USEF NRSC NADA KARI SaTReC NSPO

Southeast Asia	LAPAN MNSA PAGASA SSTA IN.Genius GISTDA

South Asia	SPARRSO ISRO Antrix Corp DoS SUPARCO

Southwest Asia	MAKA¹ IAIO ISA SAHA ISA NCSR TÜBİTAK UZAY UAESA

Central Asia	KazCosmos TNSA

Europe

Oceania

CSIRO

World

See also: Timeline of first orbital launches by country
¹ Preceded by the Soviet space program

European Space Agency

Spaceports	Guiana Space Centre Esrange

Launch vehicles	Ariane 5 Arianespace Soyuz Vega

Facilities	ESOC ESTEC ESRIN EAC ESAC ECSAT CDF ST-ECF

Communications	ESTRACK European Data Relay System

Programmes	Aurora Copernicus Sentinel Cosmic Vision EGNOS ELIPS ExoMars FLPP Galileo LPP Space Situational Awareness Programme

Predecessors	ELDO ESRO

Related topics	Arianespace ESA Television EUMETSAT European Space Camp GEWEX Planetary Science Archive

Projects and missions

Science

Solar physics	ISEE-2 (1977–1987) Ulysses (1990–2009) SOHO (1995–present) Cluster II (2000–present) Solar Orbiter (2017)

Planetary science	Giotto (1985–1992) Huygens (1997–2005) SMART-1 (2003–2006) Mars Express (2003–present) Rosetta/Philae (2004–present) Venus Express (2005–2014) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2016) BepiColombo (2017) ExoMars (rover) (2018) AIDA (2020) Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (2022)

Astronomy and cosmology	Cos-B (1975–1982) IUE (1978–1996) EXOSAT (1983–1986) Hipparcos (1989–1993) Hubble (1990–present) Eureca (1992–1993) ISO (1995–1998) XMM-Newton (1999–present) INTEGRAL (2002–present) COROT (2006–2013) Planck (2009–2013) Herschel (2009–2013) Gaia (2013–present) CHEOPS (2017) James Webb (2018) Euclid (2020) PLATO (2024) ATHENA (2028) LISA (2034)

Earth observation	Meteosat First Generation (1977–1997) ERS-1 (1991–2000) ERS-2 (1995–2011) Meteosat Second Generation (2002–present) Envisat (2002–2012) Double Star (2003–2007) MetOp (2006–present) GOCE (2009–2013) SMOS (2009–present) CryoSat-2 (2010–present) Swarm (2013–present) Sentinel-1 (2014–present) Sentinel-2 (2015–present) Sentinel-3A (2016–present) Sentinel-5 Precursor (2016) Meteosat Third Generation (Sentinel-4) (2017) ADM-Aeolus (2017) EarthCARE (2018) MetOp-SG-A (2021) SMILE (2021) MetOp-SG-B (2022) FLEX (2022)

ISS spaceflight

ISS contribution (1998–present)
Columbus (2008–present)
Jules Verne (2008)
Cupola (2010–present)
Johannes Kepler (2011)
Edoardo Amaldi (2012)
Albert Einstein (2013)
Georges Lemaître (2014)
European Robotic Arm (2017)

Telecommunications

GEOS 2 (1978)
Olympus-1 (1989–1993)
Artemis (2001–present)
GIOVE-A (2005–present)
GIOVE-B (2008–present)
HYLAS (2010–present)
Galileo IOV (2011–present)
Galileo FOC (2014–present)
European Data Relay System (2015)

Technology
demonstrators

ARD (1998)
PROBA (2001–present)
YES2 (2007)
Proba-2 (2009–present)
Proba-V (2013–present)
IXV (2015)
LISA Pathfinder (2015–present)
OPS-SAT (Q3/Q4 2017)
Proba-3 (2018)
Lunar Lander (2018)

Cancelled and proposed

Failed

Future missions in italics

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