ESA Selects Airbus for Vigil Spacecraft Development

Will Provide More Accurate Warning of Impending Solar Storms

ESA has chosen Airbus to design and build the space weather forecasting satellite Vigil, the first operational mission in ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Safety Programme (S2P). The spacecraft will give vital extra warning to Earth about incoming solar storms and coronal mass ejections which can potentially disrupt satellites in orbit and …