space agency
Noun
Meaning
space agency (plural space agencies)
A government agency engaged in activities related to outer space and space exploration.
Examples
He called for the promotion of bilateral cooperation between the Iranian Space Agency and Space Research Center for developing international relations.
Kepler also received 1 million Canadian dollars ($760,000) from the Canadian Space Agency to mature its bus design and production techniques, leading some observers to conclude national pride could play a role.
Subsequent missions, currently under consideration by NASA in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
Libby Jackson, who is the human exploration programme manager at the UK Space Agency, said having an orbiting space lab, which cost more than 100 billion US dollars (£75 billion) to build, is something “you can’t put a price on”.
Before that, he had a stint working on a space shuttle project for the European Space Agency.
He was an astronaut with the CSA (Canadian Space Agency).