ESA signed a contract that brings the ICEYE constellation of small satellites into the fleet of missions contributing to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. As a commercial ...

Airbus (EADSF)(EADSY) said it secured a €345 million ($400 million) contract from Thales Alenia Space to develop and ...

On November 29, 2022, Arianespace announced having signed with the European Commission (Directorate General for Defence, Industry and Space), a contract for the procurement of five launch services ...

June 8, 2023, marks the 25th anniversary of Copernicus, the earth observation component of the European Union’s space programme. Launched in 1998 and previously known as the Global Monitoring for ...

Copernicus is a joint initiative of the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and their member ...

On 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time), the new Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite was successfully launched from French Guiana. The Sentinel mission provides essential data for monitoring ...

– The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) [1] which establishes an EU shared competence in Space; – The Framework Agreement between the European Union and the European Space Agency ...

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