In the ESA Delivers introduction, Director General Aschbacher asks readers to imagine a Europe without its space agency: the wider Universe would be a much dimmer, less known, place, our continent might possess few native astronauts or space scientists and our telecommunications, navigation and weather forecasting could well be dependent on foreign powers.

To think forward while looking back, the 50 achievements listed in ESA Delivers are grouped according to the five strategic goals of Strategy 2040, the agency’s vision for the next 15 years, treating these results as baselines to be built upon for the future.

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