Current Projects To Be Launched in The Near Future
- ADM-Aeolus — Due for launch in 2013 will measure global wind profiles.
- BepiColombo — space probe to Mercury (together with JAXA).
- Don Quijote — space probe planned to test deflecting an asteroid, launch in 2013 or 2015
- ExoMars — Mars spacecraft and rover to be launched 2016.
- EXPERT — a flying hypersonic wind tunnel.
- Galileo positioning system — a proposed satellite positioning system.
- Gaia — cataloguing and astrometry of stars in our galaxy.
- James Webb Space Telescope — planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (together with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency).
- LISA Pathfinder — aka Smart-2, technology demonstrator for the LISA mission.
- Proba-V — a new satellite in the PROBA series, to be launched in April 2013. Main objective is to observe the ground vegetation on a global scale
- Swarm — a satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field.
- Sentinel-1 — the first component of the GMES Space Segment, carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in C-Band, that will provide all-weather, day and night radar imaging for land and ocean services.
Read more about this topic: List Of Projects Of The European Space Agency
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