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On 19 December 2022, it was proposed that this article be movedtoESA. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Includes the France launches (those before 1979)

• Total number of launches: 286 in 56 years = 5.1 launches per year
• Success: 266 (93%)
• Failure: 20

• Max launches in one year: 12 launches in 1997, 2000 and 2002
• Max successful launches in one year: 12 launches in 2000
• Max satellites on a single launch: 53 satellites on a Vega rocket on 3 September 2020

• 95 consecutive successful launches between these two failures: 11 Dec 2002 - Ariane 5ECA - Hot Bird 7 - and - 25 Jan 2018 - Ariane 5ECA - Al Yah 3
• 40 consecutive successful launches between these two failures: 30 Oct 1997 - Ariane 5G - TEAMSAT - and - 12 Jul 2001 - Ariane 5G - Artemis
• 26 consecutive successful launches between these two failures: 22 Feb 1990 - Ariane 44L - Superbird B - and - 24 Jan 1994 - Ariane 44LP - Eutelsat 2 F5

Barecode (talk) 05:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Total number of launches: 274 in 53 years = 5.1 launches per year
• Success: 256 (93.4 %)
• Failure: 18

Barecode (talk) 15:32, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Fellow Wikipedians,

Posting these updates as proposals and ask that someone review and actually make the edits, as I wish to avoid updating the ESA page myself.

References 4, 14, and 34 under External Links should be updated to point to either:

1. The pocket edition publication: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publications/ESA_Publications_Monographs/ESA_Convention_booklet

or

2. About the Convention itself as a legal document: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Law_at_ESA/ESA_Convention

Cheers! Danno612 09:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Danno612 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply] 

It's a story as old as time, or at least as old as 1992, but somebody confused Slovenia and Slovakia. The logo shows the flag of SlovENIA, although it isn't a member of ESA, SlovAKIA is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.214.77 (talk • contribs)

In two different parts of the article, reflist|group=note|refs= is in the body rather than in the references section. I hadn't seen that before. If that type of setup is okay, then I'll leave that alone. It seems to work for this article. GBFEE (talk) 18:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The result of the move request was: not moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 14:47, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

European Space Agency → ESA – From a comparison at Google Trends linked here, there is a significant higher search of "ESA" compared with "European Space Agency". Thus, I find this move reasonable. Any objections to this move? Thanks, Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 14:32, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support: Seems reasonable per MOS:ACROTITLE. YorkshireExpat (talk) 23:35, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Indeed often referred to as the ESA, but certainly not exclusively. This is a similar situation to not renaming Royal Air Force to RAF, United States Air Force to USAF, Special Air Service to SAS, etc. The abbreviation may be a little more commonly seen, but the full title is still very well-known. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:44, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. The determination for when an initialism becomes dominant enough in usage to warrant being the article title is a bit subjective, but I don't think the ESA has quite reached that point yet. Rreagan007 (talk) 17:21, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Britannica uses the full name. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:07, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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There are several more ESA_Labs@ created the last few years that should be added to the section. Roger (talk) 09:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is no information currently about this lunar lander approved by the ESA in 2022. Based on reporting it will launch on Ariane 6 73.210.30.217 (talk) 05:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]