Andreas Diekmann, 2010 American Astronautical Society Goddard Memorial Symposium

1. International Goals in Space European Space Agency (ESA) Andreas Diekmann Head ESA Washington Office 48 th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium “ Earth and Beyond: The Next Decades” 11 March 2010, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

2. Achievements Long history of successful NASA-ESA cooperation: e.g. ISEE 1,2,3; HST; Ulysses; Cluster; SOHO; (JWST) ESA Cosmic Vision Prg.: Cluster XMM-Newton Integral SMART 1 ROSETTA Mars Express, Venus Express Herschel/Planck Goals Solar System Exploration short/medium: 2016/2018 NASA-ESA missions to Mars long-term: Mars Sample Return Future cooperation: Asteroid Sample Return?, Phobos Sample Return? Fundamental physics/cosmology short/medium: cooperation in EUCLID long-term: coop. in LISA, IXO Exoplanet Research Follow-up Corot Follow-up PLATO? Cooperation in tbd post-PLATO mission? Space Science

3. Goals Development/launch of GMES Sentinel Satellites Continued scientific Earth Explorer Programme Systematic measurements of Essential Climate Variables (foster intern. cooperation in this field) Europe’s first 3-axis stabilised Meteosat system (6 satellites) Earth Observation ESA EO Programme Earth Explorer Earth Watch GMES (Sentinel 1-5) (2011-2019) GOCE (2009) SMOS (2009) CryoSat (2010) …… Achievements Meteo-Sats GEOSS, GEO