2021 Council Meeting held at the International Union of Railways complex in Paris.
2021 Council held at the International Union of Railways complex in Paris.
2021 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet
2021 296th ESA Council session on 17 and 18 March 2021 in Paris during the Covid-19 pandemic
2021 Josef Aschbacher (AT) Director General of ESA
2020, Anna Rathsman (SE) first chairwoman of Council
2019 Space19+, ESA Council at Ministerial level, Seville
2015 Council Delegates watching launch VS13
Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission, delivered an address to the ESA Council on 13 September 2016
2015 ESA Council is co-chaired by Bo Andersen (NO) and Jean-Yves Le Gall (FR)
2015 Hungary becomes 22nd ESA Member State
2015 Estonia becomes 21st ESA Member State
2014 Rosetta mission soft-lands its Philae probe on a comet,
2014 Harald Posch (AT) new chairman of Council
2013 Jan Woerner (DE) new chairman of Council
2012 ESA Council at Ministerial level, Naples
2012 Poland formally becomes ESA's 20th Member State
2012, the first Vega lifted off
2011 Romania becomes ESA’s 19th Member State
2011, new configuration room A in HQ
2011, Henrik Grage left the Council after the longest period as delegate: 1966-2011
2010 David Williams (GB) new chairman of Council
2009 Six new ESA astronauts join the European Astronaut Corps
2008 ESA Council at Ministerial level, The Hague
2008 The Czech Republic became the 18th ESA Member State
2008, Maurici Lucena (ES) new chairman of Council
2008 Celebrating the 200th ESA Council meeting in Paris
2008 199th ESA Council, ESRIN
2007 195th ESA Council meeting, Dresden,
2005 Launch of first Galileo test satellite (GIOVE-A)
2005 ESA’s Council at Ministerial level, Berlin.
2005, Sigmar Wittig (DE) new chairman of Council
2005 Luxembourg becomes ESA’s 17th Member State
2005 Greece becomes ESA’s 16th Member State
2004 First ESA-EU “Space Council”, Brussels
2004 Launch of Rosetta from Kourou
2003 Jean-Jacques Dordain (FR) Director General of ESA
2002 Per Tegnér (SE) new chairman of Council. He will be reelected from 1st July 2007
2003 Last Council meeting with ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà
2001 ESA Council at Ministerial level, Edinburgh
2000 Portugal becomes ESA's 15th Member State
1999 First operational flight of Ariane 5 carrying XMM-Newton
1999, Alain Bensoussan (FR) new chairman of Council
1998 25th anniversary of the 1973 European Space Conference
1998 ESA Council decides to build up the single European Astronaut Corps.
1997 Second launch of Ariane 5 (V101 / 502 from ELA-3, Kourou)
1997 Antonio Rodotà (IT) Director General of ESA
1996 Hugo Parr (Norway) new chairman of Council
1995 ESA Council at Ministerial level, Toulouse
Successful launch of ERS-2 by Ariane 4 (V72)
Finland becomes 14th ESA Member State
30 years of Space in Europe, ESTEC
Gaele Winters (NL) new chairman of Council
1993 Launch of Meteosat-6
1992 Council meeting at HQ
1992 ESA Council at Ministerial level, Granada
Deployment of the European Retrievable Carrier, Eureca science platform
Jean-François Clervoy, Pedro Duque, Christer Fuglesang join ESA’s European Astronaut Corps
1991 ESA Council at Ministerial level, Munich
Jean-Marie Luton (FR) Director General of ESA
Francesco Carassa (IT) new chairman of Council
19 April 1989 Celebration of 25 years of European cooperation in space in Paris
1987 ESA Council at Ministerial level, The Hague
1987 ESA Council meeting at Ministerial level, The Hague
Henrik Grage (DK) new chairman of Council
76th Council meeting in HQ
Austria and Norway become the 12th and 13th ESA Member States
Successful historic encounter of the Giotto probe with Halley's Comet
ESA Council at ministerial level, Rome
Reimar Lüst (DE) Director General of ESA
Harry Atkinson (GB) new chairman of Council
ESA Council Meeting at ESTEC
Successful launch of ECS-1
Ulf Merbold, ESA's first astronaut, onboard the US Space Shuttle
1982 Council meeting in HQ
Signature of the first contract for Arianespace
Hubert Curien (FR) new chairman of Council
Council adopts the decision to build ELA-2
Erik Quistgaard (DK) Director General of ESA
24 December 1979: Ariane L01 Launch
Jan Stiernstedt (SE) new chairman of Council
Press Conference for Spacelab Candidates
20 April 1977 Launch of GEOS-1
First ESA Council meeting at ministerial level, HQ, Paris
ESA Council meets for the first time in the Agency’s new headquarters
Wolfgang Finke (DE) new chairman of Council
First ESA Council meeting chaired by Maurice Lévy (FR). Roy Gibson (GB), first Director General of ESA
10 ESA council meetings were held in Conference room A at Neuilly
