TheESA Centre for Earth Observation (also known as theEuropean Space Research Institute orESRIN) is a research centre belonging to theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), located inFrascati (Rome) Italy.[1] It is dedicated to research involvingearth observation data taken from satellites, among other specialised activities. The establishment currently hosts the European Space Agency's development team for theVega launcher.[2]
ESLAR, a laboratory for advanced research was created in 1966 mainly to break the political deadlock over the location ofESLAB. Later renamed ESRIN, an acronym for European Space Research Institute, ESLAR was based in Frascati (Italy).[3] TheESRO Convention describes ESRINs' role in the following manner:
...to undertake laboratory and theoretical research in the basic physics and chemistry necessary to the understanding of past and the planning of future experiments in space.
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