First light for 2024. Ireland to join European space research organisation European Southern Observatory membership to boost skills in data analytics and software Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 20:39 Updated: Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 20:59 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. Following a general overhaul of the European Space Program decided in 1973, the European Space Research Organisation was merged with ELDO to form the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1975. The European Launcher Development Organisation. Organisation, departments, roles and responsibilities, governing principles, and how to visit and get involved. The Western European nations decided to have two agencies: one concerned with developing a launch system, ELDO (European Launch Development Organization), and the other the precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation). ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. The world's biggest eye on the sky! The European Commission's political leadership Business, Economy, Euro 199 talking about this. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of outer space. European Space Agency (ESA), French Agence Spatiale Européenne (ASE), European space and space-technology research organization founded in 1975 from the merger of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) and the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO), both established in 1964. ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is an organization formed in 1962 by 10 European nations plus Australia, which made available its rocket-firing range at Woomera.Between 1968 and 1972, ESRO launched seven satellites – Iris (ESRO-2B), Aurora (ESRO-1A), HEOS-1, Boreas, HEOS-2, TD-1A, and ESRO-4 – using NASA rockets. Tommaso Cardona, Federico Curianò, Marco Castronuovo, Fabrizio Piergentili, Fabio Santoni, Patrick Setizer, Germano Bianchi, Marco Acernese, Paolo Marzioli, Shariar Hadji Hossein, Leonardo Parisi, Davide Rastelli, Niccolò Bellini (2019) In: 1st NEO and Debris Detection Conference, 22 January 2019 - 24 January 2019, Darmstadt, Germany, published by ESA Space Safety Programme Office