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|owner = |headquarters = Paris, Île-de-France, France |spaceport = Guiana Space Centre |image = ESA LOGO.svg |size = 240px |acronym = |established = May 30, 1975; 40 years ago |administrator = Johann-Dietrich Wörner Director General |budget = €4.43 billion / £3.38 billion / US$5.15 billion (2015)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 ESA Budget for 2015 )〕 |language = English, French and German |URL = }} The European Space Agency (ESA; (フランス語:Agence spatiale européenne), ASE; (ドイツ語:Europäische Weltraumorganisation)) is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, with 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000 with an annual budget of about €4.28 billion / US$5.51 billion (2013).〔 ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station programme, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. 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. Its facilities are distributed among the following 5 research centres: * ESA science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands; * Earth Observation missions at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy; * ESA Mission Control (ESOC) is in Darmstadt, Germany; * the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) that trains astronauts for future missions is situated in Cologne, Germany; * and the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) is located in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「European Space Agency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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