The 2020s have already seen the launch of ESA's Solar Orbiter mission to take the closest ever images of the Sun, observe the solar wind and the Sun's polar regions like never before, and the dramatic rescue of ESA's Integral Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory satellite following a reaction wheel shutdown caused by charged particles striking it sensitive electronics.

Among many other milestones and highlights, this decade will see the arrival of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission at Mercury in late 2025 and the launches of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, the JUICE mission to Jupiter's icy moons, and the Artemis programme.

ESA's 2025 Agenda has established the agency's continued trajectory as a pioneer of space safety and sustainability, a leader for a green and digital Europe and a driver of the European space economy.