Mission Log

Launch Provider

European Space Agency

Country

France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Czechia, Romania, Norway, Finland, Greece, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Slovenia

Founded

1975

Leadership

Director General: Josef Aschbacher

Launch Record

6 success, 1 failed

The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.

Type

Test Flight

Target Orbit

Suborbital

First low-altitude hop test of a Themis demonstrator, with a targeted altitude up to 100 m.

Height

28.0 m

Diameter

3.5 m

Liftoff Mass

170.0 t

Liftoff Thrust

980.0 kN

Reusable

Yes

Launch Success

0

Themis is an ESA rocket prototype – a flagship European demonstrator for low-cost rocket recovery and reuse technologies. Powered by the reusable, methane-fuelled engine Prometheus, it is developed with ArianeGroup as prime contractor and building on decades of European research and experience in rocketry and space operations, Themis is designed to launch, land vertically and live on for another mission.

Serial

T1H

Status

active

Flight Proven

No

Landing Attempt

Yes

Landing Success

Unknown

Landing Site

Launch Complex 3 Landing Pad (LC3LP)

Launch Complex 3B, Esrange Space Center

Launch complex for Themis test flights at Esrange.