The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the space community to attend its first ever online Industry Space Days (ISD) event on 16 – 17 September 2020. Join the GEO 2015 Short Video Competition! EIC Horizon prizes: Commission opens competition for a €10 million prize for low-cost space launch, Results of ongoing EU funded pre-commercial procurements (PCPs), 130M euro of EU funding for innovation procurement in 2016-17 - don't miss the open PCP call. While that program is now concluded, ESA's European Space Operations Center in Germany still does ISS work, such as having astronauts in orbit test-drive rovers on Earth's surface. This will anchor and structure space research and innovation at the European level and address key aspects identified in the Commission Communication “EU Space Industrial Policy: Releasing the Potential for Growth in the Space Sector”. EU Space Programme. Mars Express is orbiting the Red Planet in search of Mars water, including probing underground with its instruments. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, How to address markets post-COVID transformation: ESA Space Solutions new initiatives, Rita Rinaldo, ESA, Directorate of Telecommunications & Integrated Applications, Head of the Institutional Projects Section, Earth Observation, Introduction to the Φ-lab and the Investing in Industrial Innovation Programme (InCubed), Amanda Regan, ESA, Directorate of Earth Observation, Head of Phi-lab Invest Office, The NAVISP Programme, an opportunity for the PNT ecosystem, Pierluigi Mancini, ESA, Directorate of Navigation, Head of NAVISP Programme Office, Future challenges and opportunities in space operations, Reinhold Bertrand, ESA, Directorate of Operations, Senior Strategy Officer, Artur Palowski, Directorate of Operations, Innovation Officer, TDE: ESA’s Technology Development Element, Eike Kircher, ESA, Directorate of Technology, Engineering & Quality, Deputy Head of the Technology Programmes Office, GSTP overview and collaboration opportunities, Alessandro Rapisarda, ESA, Directorate of Technology, Engineering & Quality, Technology R&D Engineer, Short course: How to fill-in PSS-A cost forms, EIB Space Finance Lab: space in the time of COVID-19. The GAIA telescope is currently mapping billions of stars with unprecedented precision. Online Edition. ESA's European Astronaut Centre was founded in 1990 as the agency geared up for contributions to the International Space Station. To address this important goal, the European Space Agency (ESA) has established the ExoMars programme to investigate the Martian environment and to demonstrate new technologies paving the way for a future Mars sample return mission in the 2020's.