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The European Space Agency (ESA) has been flying space environment monitors for decades including a large number of radiation instruments, selected microparticle detectors and science-level plasma instrumentation. Payloads have been flown on scientific and navigation missions and more are planned for exploration, Earth exploration and telecommunication missions. Since 2009 ESA's Space Safety Programme (S2P - formally SSA) has been developing a space segment dedicated for operational space environment monitoring and space weather forecasting. S2P funds hosted payloads on missions as well as developing a dedicated space segment including the Lagrange mission and the Distributed Space weather Sensor System (D3S).
This presentation will outline the upcoming instruments being flown on ESA platforms, collaborations planned for additional sensors and future possibilities for flying space environment sensors which will contribute to ESA's space environment knowledgebase and space weather network.
