Program

ESA Plan

Payloads: 13
In orbit: 12
Operational (CelesTrak): 7
Re-entered: 1
First launch: 1985-07-02
Latest launch: 2024-10-07

Owners

European Space Agency13

Built by

Airbus Defense and Space (UK)3
EADS Bremen2
Airbus Defense and Space (F) Toulouse1
Astrium (D), Bremen1
British Aerospace1
Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA)-Friedrichsafen (Dornier GmBH)1
Matra Marconi Space (Toulouse)1
OHB/AVIO1
SSC/SAABSA1
THALES/THALA1

Payloads in this program

Name	NORAD	Launch date	Status
GIOTTO	15875	1985-07-02	Not operational
ULYSSES	20842	1990-10-06	Not operational
SOHO	23726	1995-12-02	Operational
MARS EXPRESS	27816	2003-06-02	Operational
SMART-1	27949	2003-09-27	Re-entered 2006-09-03
ROSETTA	28169	2004-03-02	Not operational
VENUS EXPRESS	28901	2005-11-09	Not operational
LISA PATHFINDER	41043	2015-12-03	Not operational
EXOMARS	41388	2016-03-14	Operational
BEPICOLOMBO	43653	2018-10-20	Operational
SOLAR ORBITER	45167	2020-02-10	Operational
JUICE	56176	2023-04-14	Operational
HERA	61449	2024-10-07	Operational

From GCAT by Jonathan McDowell (CC BY 4.0). Roles are counted from the catalogue itself, not from GCAT type labels, which GCAT describes as patchy. About this source