The ESA Centre for Earth Observation (also known as ESRIN) located in Frascati, Italy, is one of the five specialised centres of the European Space Agency (ESA) located across Europe. Among other things the establishment currently hosts the ESA development team for the Vega Launcher.[1]
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ESLAR, a laboratory for advanced research was created in 1966 mainly to break the political deadlock over the location of ESLAB. Later renamed ESRIN, an acronym for European Space Research Institute, ESLAR was based in Frascati (Italy). The ESRO 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.
— ESRO Convention
The facility began acquiring data from environmental satellites in the 1970s.
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