List of European Space Agency programmes and missions

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of missions, both operational and scientific, including collaborations with other national space agencies such as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

Their portfolio of missions also include many public-private partnership missions, a number of which with European satellite operators EUMETSAT, Eutelsat, and Inmarsat.

A staple of the ESA's Science Doctrine is the Cosmic Vision programme, a series of space science missions chosen by the ESA to launch through competitions, similar to NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers programmes.

A similarly operated programme focused on Earth observation, known as the Living Planet Programme, has launched various "Earth Explorers" such as GOCE and Swarm, which serve many forms of Geoscience individually.

A number of missions by the ESA have also launched and operated outside of a canonical programme, as is the case with missions such as Giotto, Ulysses, and Mars Express.

View from the Operations Manager desk across the control room at ESOC in Darmstadt , Germany.
Artists' impression of Rosetta , a "cornerstone" mission of the Horizon 2000 program originally formulated in the 1980s.
Concept art of the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter component of the Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace mission, which would later evolve into the JUICE L-class Cosmic Vision mission.
Artwork depicting COS-B , the first ESA-operated science mission, launched in August 1975.
Artists' impression of Giotto , the European Space Agency's first interplanetary mission, launched in July 1985.
Artist's impression of the Mars Express spacecraft, the first ESA mission to orbit another planet.
Primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope undergoing evaluation.