Autonomous system
AS288 ESA Robert Bosch Strasse 5
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
European Space Agency (ESA)
government research legacy
A network of the European Space Agency (ESA), registered at Robert-Bosch-Strasse 5, the address of ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
What it's used for
- Networking for ESA's spacecraft operations and research, centered on ESOC, the main mission-control site for ESA's uncrewed missions.
Notable
- An intergovernmental space-agency network, not a commercial ISP. The low AS number reflects an early-internet allocation.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 42 prefixes · 18.72K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 42 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS288- Registry name
- ESA
- Registrant
- ESANIC-MNT
- Abuse contact
- esanic@esa.int
- Registered
- 2002-09-19
- Last changed
- 2024-12-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ESA Network Information Centre (ESANIC)
- Also known as
- ESANIC
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- https://www.esa.int/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 2% valid · 1 valid, 53 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS288
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 53 of 54 announcements
- Route objects
- 126 naming AS288
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere