[placesalt]

Not generally known, I think, but Canada is technically part of ESA. Not a full member, a 'Cooperating State', but there are some benefits. Wiki sez "Canadian firms can bid for and receive contracts to work on (ESA) programmes."

[oittaa]

Yeah, and a lot of people also think it's a "EU only" club, but other countries like Norway, Switzerland, and the UK are also members.

[h4ckerle]

ESA isn't even an EU Institution, the EU has its own space agency called EUSPA[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_the_...

[PlutoIsAPlanet]

EUSPA isn't really a space agency. As the article says, EUSPA gets ESA to do the technical work.