Switzerland

Switzerland is ESA's seventh-largest contributor, committing CHF 781 million at the latest Ministerial Council, and is home to world-class space institutions including EPFL's eSpace center and the Swiss Space Office. The country leads in orbital sustainability through ClearSpace, which holds an €86 million ESA contract for the first-ever space debris removal mission. RUAG Space, headquartered in Zurich, is Europe's largest independent supplier of satellite structures and launcher payload fairings.