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Autonomous system

AS8519 ESA-MOSNET ESA OPSNET-INTRANET

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 8.19K 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly DE
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

European Space Agency (OPSNET)

Germany · AI-generated

government research legacy

ESA-MOSNET is held by the European Space Agency. The single announced block,

195.74.160.0/19, is registered as ESA-OPSNET — the agency's operational

network — and is administered from Germany, where ESA's European Space Operations

Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt runs spacecraft operations.

What it's used for

  • Connectivity for ESA's operational and intranet estate: the ground-segment and mission-operations infrastructure, and the agency's internal systems across its establishments.
  • About 8,000 addresses, announced as one contiguous /19 with a single observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

  • The block publishes no public reverse DNS at all — nothing resolves across the range. That is normal for an operational agency network that is not meant to serve public-facing content; the address space exists to reach ESA systems, not to host them for the internet.
  • ESA is an intergovernmental organisation of European member states, so this is government/public-sector address space even though it belongs to no single country. The registry country reflects where the network is administered, not ownership.

Interesting

  • ESA's public web presence lives elsewhere; this AS is the quiet side of the agency, the network behind mission control rather than the one behind the press releases.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Address space

Summary

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CountryNamePrefixes
DEGermany1

Registry

Allocation record

via RIPE RDAP
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS8519
Registry name
ESA-MOSNET
Registrant
ESANIC-MNT
Abuse contact
esanic@esa.int
Registered
2001-10-11
Last changed
2017-11-15
Status
active

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.

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