January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... the European Commission. The European Commission today has many space programmes, the most important being Copernicus and Galileo, which are implemented by the European Space Agency. The commission has ambitions for further...
14 July 2016
Sentinel 3A satellite handed over to Eumetsat
... data (2016) "This handover also puts the EU–ESA–Eumetsat cooperation in Copernicus into full action. While the EU leads Copernicus overall, and ESA coordinates the space component, ESA and Eumetsat have complementary roles in the...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... on biofuel production, can already be monitored from space. The upcoming Sentinel missions, which are part of the Copernicus programme, will aid in identifying potential sites for solar or wind power generation. However, a fair amount of unmet...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
...have revolutionised daily life on Earth. With programmes like Copernicus and Galileo, Europe continues to move along this path...each other. And the future of Europe, the Europe of Copernicus and Galileo, will only happen if we take this responsibility ...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... The free and open data policy applied in the Copernicus programme provides a wealth of environmental data likely to ... of European service companies. Targeting the development of Copernicus downstream services, the objective is to federate SMEs ...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, to enable the rapid response to the outbreak in Sierra Leone. A screenshot of a new Copernicus C3S application showing COVID-19 mortalities mapped against temperature. Paradigm shift After West Africa’s Ebola...
