European Space Agency
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is, as its name suggests, a space agency based in Europe.
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Fiction
The Last Knight film
When Unicron's horns emerged out of the Earth, an ESA satellite detected a thermal anomaly near the horns which turned out to be none other than Megatron himself.
Later on, when Sir Edmund Burton urged the Prime Minister to mobilize the British military, a TV screen in the Prime Minister's office showed images of Cybertron coming from the Hubble Space Telescope which were credited as coming from ESA, which jointly operated the telescope with NASA.
While Cybertron came closer to the Earth, ESA's European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tracked the planet while two ESA scientists gave a briefing about the planet's approach and collision course. ESA stated that the International Space Station would be Cybertron's first hit with the Earth following two hours later. The Last Knight
Notes
- In real life, the Beagle 2 Rover was an ESA mission and not a NASA one as depicted in the 2007 film.
- While the Transformers movieverse obviously has many deviations from real life, The Last Knight's depiction of British participation in the ESA in the 2020s is not an unrealistic trope. This is because despite the similar names, the European Space Agency is independent of the European Union and thus not bound by Brexit.
