{"id":629,"date":"2015-05-22T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:33:52","slug":"introducing-esas-space-exploration-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ESA\u2019s Space Exploration Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explorationstrategy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-628 alignright\" alt=\"explorationstrategy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explorationstrategy.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>Last month, ESA published its \u201cESA Space Exploration Strategy\u201d. It outlines the long-term planning for Europe\u2019s participation in space exploration, focusing on the next ten years but also taking into account longer-term perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy provides ESA\u00b4s conclusions on the questions about why to explore, where to explore and how to explore and focuses on three common mission goals for the next decades:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exploitation of human-tended infrastructures in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) beyond 2020 for advancing research and enabling human exploration of deep space;<\/li>\n<li>Returning samples from the Moon and Mars;<\/li>\n<li>Extending human presence to the Moon and Mars in a step-wise approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the basis of this document a \u2018Resolution on Europe\u2019s Space Exploration Strategy\u2019 has been developed by ESA and adopted by its Member States\u2019 Ministers at the Council meeting at Ministerial level beginning of December last year. The Resolution reaffirms ESA\u2019s exploration \u00a0destinations (LEO, Moon and Mars) and objectives for space exploration. It mandates the ESA Director General to propose respective programmatic activities to the Member States.<\/p>\n<p>The work of ISECG and its products like the Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) have informed the ESA strategy and provided the international space exploration context.<\/p>\n<p>The ESA Space Exploration Strategy can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/multimedia\/publications\/ESA_Space_Exploration_Strategy\/\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/multimedia\/publications\/ESA_Space_Exploration_Strategy\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, ESA published its \u201cESA Space Exploration Strategy\u201d. It outlines the long-term planning for Europe\u2019s participation in space exploration, focusing on<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/?p=629\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalspaceexploration.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}