DG Annual Press Conf 2022

1. 1
ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For ESA Official Use Only
ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For ESA Official Use
Josef Aschbacher
ESA Director General
Paris, 18 January 2022
#SpaceAmbition
Director General’s Annual Press Conference

2. ESA Budget in 2022: Total 7.152 M €
2
Earth Observation
1.613
Space
Transportation
1.006
Navigation 1.533
Human and Robotic
Exploration 931
Telecom & Integrated
Applications 518
Technology Support 225
Space Safety 109
European Cooperating
States 2
Basic Activities
293
General Budget
280
Scientific Programme 576
Prodex 65
Member States 64.3%
EU 28.4%
Eumetsat 2.4%
Others 4.9%

3. 3
3
The acceleration has started

4. Accelerating the Use of Space in Europe
European
Human
Space
Exploration
Icy Moon
Sample
Return
Mission
Space for a
Green Future
Rapid and
Resilient Crisis
Response
Protection of
European
Space Assets
4
3 Accelerators 2 Inspirators

5. 5
A-1: Space for a Green Future
5
Quantum
missions for
climate
Digital Twin
Earth
Green transition
information
factories
+ Accelerating decarbonisation & sustainability
= Supporting the climate neutrality by 2050 objective
+ +

6. 6
Copernicus: Global Success but Issues
to Tackle
750 M€
shortfall:
next
steps

7. 7
Launch of First MTG Satellite
Q4 2022

8. 8
8
8
MTG: next-generation weather forecasting
Q4 2022
Future EO
Pioneering
world-class science
missions for Earth
8

9. 9
A-2: Rapid and Resilient Crisis Response
9
Linking all key
information
Earth Observation
HAPS
In-situ
User-ready
integrated
information
Into one
integrated
smart network

10. 10
EU-led Secure Connectivity
 Global
 Multi-orbital
 Secure Arch.
 Innovative
 Scalable
ESA in dialogue with EC DEFIS and ESA Member
States to prepare proposal for CM22
Principles defined by EC
 Gvt & Commercial
Secure
Communications
 Focus on Europe,
Africa, Arctic
 Reliable
 Cost-effective
 Ultra-secure
connectivity
Building on EU GOVSATCOM and EuroQCI

11. Telecom: Five Innovative Satellite Launches
11
First Eurostar Neo
Eutelsat
Partnership with Airbus DS
Launch in 2022
PIONEER SPIRE
Optical Inter Satellite Link
3 LEO Cubesat
2 Launches in 2022
JOEYSAT
Innovative LEO 5G Service
Partnership with OneWeb
Launch in 2022

12. Navigation: Next Galileo Launches in 2022
12
Galileo L12 FM 29-30 March-April Soyuz-Kourou
L13 FM 31-32 Sept-Nov Soyuz-Kourou

13. 13
A-3: Protecting our Space Assets:
13
= Accelerating the Protection of our Space Assets
+
Space
debris
Space
weather

14. 14
Protecting our Space Assets
14
“Space is essential for daily life. We need to preserve it”
“We need to act now and protect our assets and astronauts”

15. 15
15
I-1: Icy Moon Sample Return Mission
Is there life out there?

16. Space Science - JWST & GAIA Data Release
16
JWST Early
Data Release
Q2 or Q3 2022
GAIA
Data Release 3
Q2 2022

17. 17
17
I-2: European Human Space Exploration

18. Space Transportation
18
Vega C
Maiden Flight
May 2022
Ariane 6
Towards
Maiden Flight
Combined tests
in Q3

19. 19
Commercial Space Transportation
19
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
#
of
launches
Institutional Launches in China, USA, Russia and Europe
China USA Russia Europe
of which human spaceflight programme launches:

20. ESA’s Explorers – Today and Tomorrow
20
ESA Astronauts
Selection
Q4 2022
ESA astronauts on the ISS
Q2 2022

21. ISS Operations Extension 2030
21
Picture taken by Thomas Pesquet from Crew Dragon capsule during
Crew 2 ISS ‘fly around’ before returning to Earth on 9 Nov 2021
ESA decision
to extend ISS
participation
until 2030
expected at
CM22

22. First ESM on Artemis I is Ready to Go
22

23. Artemis I – ESM to Fly on NASA’s First Orion Mission 23
March 2022

24. Rosalind Franklin Launches to Mars
24
September 2022  Positive schedule margin
 35m main parachute proven
 Flight software tests on track
 Operations tests started
 Russian electronics in repair
 Baikonur launch campaign
starts in April

25. 25
25
ESA has an Exciting Exploration Plan…
2020 > 2030
ESA in mutual inter-dependence
2030 > 2040
European-led capabilities
Core ISS Partner
Mars Sample Return
Gateway – permanent habitation in
deep space
Orion - European Service
Module
ExoMars
2016
ExoMars
2022
Post-ISS
Commercial stations
Cargo launch
and return
Independent human
transport
Preparing to send humans to Mars
Living and working on the Moon

26. 26
… but we may still lack some key capabilities …
Expected Capabilities by 2030
Crewed super heavy space transportation (beyond LEO)
Crewed space transportation (LEO)
LEO cargo vehicle (docking & return)
LEO crew vehicle (docking & return)
LEO space station
Lunar orbit - robotic
Lunar orbit - human
Lunar surface - robotic
Lunar surface - human
Mars orbit - robotic
Mars surface - robotic
Mars sample return
(ISS)
(ESM-Orion)
(EL3)

27. 27
… notably, transportation for crewed exploration …
Atlas V/CST-100
Falcon 9/Crew Dragon
Super Heavy/Starship
SLS/Orion
Neutron
Soyuz/Soyuz-MS
Angara A5P/Oryol and Orlyonok
Yenisei/Oryol
LM 2F/Shenzhou
LM 5B/new gen capsule
New gen crewed LV (Moon)
GSLV MkIII/Gaganyaan
Blue Origin New Shepard
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
CAS Space
Around Earth… … and beyond
Suborbital
crewed
Orbital
crewed
SLS
Super Heavy
New Glenn
Yenisei
Angara
LM 9 (TBC)
New gen crewed LV
USA, Russia,
China, India
USA, China

28. 28
28
… because of low European investment …
Capability Activities 2021 FY estimated (M$) 2021 (M€)
Low Earth Orbit
Operations; crew and cargo
transportation; science
3 300 160
Human deep space
exploration
Space Launch System 2 600 0
Orion 1 400 150
Human Landing System 850 0
Gateway 700 105
Support & ground systems 1 000 N/A
Robotic exploration
Moon 300 40
Mars 800 230
Technology
Robotics, life support, propulsion, life
support, habitation etc.
1 100 50
Nuclear energy* Radioisotope power systems 150 Included above
Total annual budget 12 200 M$ 735 M€
*does not include nuclear fission programmes for propulsion and Moon surface power systems

29. 29
29
 Europe lack independent means of human
space exploration/transportation
 Potential scientific, economic and political
benefits are unavailable to Europe
 A political choice  political debate needed
European Human Space Exploration

30. Start
Accelerators and
Inspirators
30
2021 2022
Agenda
2025
1 March
ESA
Ministerial
Meeting
2022
Space
Summit
16 February
Matosinhos
18-19 Nov.
Accelerating the Use of Space in Europe
Advisory
Group
July-Aug.

31. 31
ESA Council at Ministerial level 2022
Paris, 22-23 Nov.

32. 32
ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For ESA Official Use Only
ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For ESA Official Use
MAKE SPACE FOR EUROPE
#SpaceAmbition
www.esa.int

33. Back up slides not to be used
33

34. Sentinel-1B Technical Issue
34

35. 35
Rapid and Resilient Crisis Response (R3) A Federated System of Systems

36. 36
CIP Directorate : Industrial Policy and Procurement
ESA Covid Financial
Measures
120
companies
involved
20
major
projects
252
individual
audits
ESA Profit Policy ESA Cost Audit Savings
450
Million
Euros
2018-20
220
Million
Euros
In 2020
36

37. 37
37
2020 European private space investments – Outlook for
2021
Sources | Space Capital 2020; ESPI, Space Venture Europe 2020, 2021
Number and value of deals in
European space start-ups 2016-2020
 Investment in European space start-ups has
been taking off since 2020 (+167% step
increase from 2019 to 2020)
 Value of deals is increasing, showing growing
maturity of start-ups and more advanced
series of funding
 Both public and private European space
investments have continued growing in 2021,
with a faster growth for private investment
mostly in overall deal volume (more than 50%
increase already until end Q3 2021)
 Exceptional European success on
commercial market in 2021 with 90% of the
number of commercial satellite orders
captured by European industry (72% of value)

38. ESA Astronaut Selection
38