Abstract
The European Space Agency is a multinational company (MNC), comprised of 15 European member states, whose mission is to shape Europe's space mission achievements, and to ensure that investment in space benefits the people of the European member states. The European Space Agency achieves this by undertaking programmes and activities that require co-ordination of financial and intellectual resources of a magnitude that no single European could match on its own. The ESA's projects are designed to find out more about the Earth, its immediate surrounding space environment, the solar system and the universe, as well as to develop satellite-based technologies and promote European industries. The ESA also works closely with space organisations outside Europe to share the benefits of outer space with the whole of mankind .
