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European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS)

General Information

The European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) is a cooperative effort of the European Space Agency ESA, National Space Agencies, and the European Industry Association EUROSPACE for the purpose of developing and maintaining common, commercial-oriented standards on behalf of space applications and with the objective of performance enhancement as well as competitiveness of the European Space Industry on the world market.

The members/partners within the ECSS-Standards development process are:

• Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
• Belgian Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC)
• British National Space Centre (BNSC)
• Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
• Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• Norwegian Space Agency
• European Industry through Eurospace

The architecture of the standards has 3 domains:

• Product Management
• Engineering
• Product Assurance.

Please find a status of the ECSS-activities on the ECSS-Homepage.