ECSAT - European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications of ESA

The European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) is ESA’s newest facility and its first in the United Kingdom.

Activities at ECSAT
The Telecommunications and Integrated Applications directorate focuses on boosting innovation to keep European and Canadian industry at the leading edge of the highly competitive global market for satellite communications and applications.

ECSAT is the headquarters of ESA’s programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES), with staff from all departments collaborating with their colleagues at ESA’s technical heart, ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

In addition to support for the development of satellite communications products, emphasis is put on the development of new satellite-based services and applications for a wide range of down-to-Earth markets.

In addition, new satellite, ground infrastructure and product developments are initiated through public–private partnerships with world-class satellite operators, with some of the resulting projects being run at ECSAT.