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 ...

With commercial companies playing an increasingly important role in creating a dynamic and innovative space industry, nine New Space satellite data suppliers have joined the Copernicus programme as ...

Environmental protection, agriculture, urban planning: these are only a few of the areas that will benefit from the earth observation data supplied by the Sentinel satellites of the European ...

– 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 ...

Switzerland has said it won’t be taking part in the EU’s climate change monitoring programme for the time being. Despite a parliamentary vote in favour of joining and agreements with the EU, the ...

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 story so far: As part of a multi-agency effort to locate a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi that crashed in East Azerbaijan province on Sunday (May 19), the European Union ...

With liftoff just few days away, the next Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is positioned in the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

In a landmark agreement for Europe's Copernicus programme, the European Commission and ESA have signed an Agreement of over €3 billion to manage and implement the Copernicus 'space component' between ...