Operator file · FR-1019
European Space Research Organisation
European Space Research Organisation is a multinational launch operator based in France, founded in 1964. It has flown 5 launches under its own name. 4 succeeded and 1 failed, a success rate of 80.0%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.
Flight record
Launch statistics
These are launches under ESRO’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.
Operator or customer
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, ESRO is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight names ESRO with someone else flying it.
How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.
About ESRO
The European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) was an international organisation founded by 10 European nations with the intention of jointly pursuing scientific research in space. It was founded in 1964. As an organisation ESRO was based on a previously existing international scientific institution, CERN. The ESRO convention, the organisations founding document outlines it as an entity exclusively devoted to scientific pursuits. This was the case for most of its lifetime but in the final years before the formation of ESA, the European Space Agency, ESRO began a programme in the field of telecommunications.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
ESRO has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesThe label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.
ESRO in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has European Space Research Organisation flown?
- European Space Research Organisation has flown 5 launches under its own name. 4 succeeded and 1 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is European Space Research Organisation's success rate?
- 80.0%. That's 4 successful flights out of 5 attempts. Its last 4 launches in a row have succeeded.
- When is European Space Research Organisation's next launch?
- European Space Research Organisation has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does European Space Research Organisation fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- European Space Research Organisation has flown 5 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
- Where is European Space Research Organisation based?
- France. Launch Library lists it as a multinational operator, founded in 1964.