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Hot on the heels of the first Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum, now is a good time to take a look at the all-embracing support that ESA gives to the commercial sector in Europe. With funding...

The report presents the findings of a participatory technology foresight exercise that listed 46 emerging and disruptive technologies relevant for space, defence, and related civil industries, which are...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC) conducted a series of Horizon Scanning exercises across six EIC programme managers’ (PM) portfolios...

On 19 October 2023, the Working Party of Foreign Relations Counsellors (RELEX) visited the EU SatCen. The primary focus of the RELEX Working Party lies in addressing the legal...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have formalized their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) in July 2023. This meaningful...

The Commission gathered with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Space Agency (ESA) in Luxembourg to discuss investments and funding needs for a competitive European upstream space sector.

In 2021, the DG DEFIS and DG JRC, in coordination with the Copernicus Committee, User Forum and the entities implementing the Copernicus Security Services, joined efforts to enhance the streamlining of research...

A paper published recently in the journal Earth System Science Data reports on the results of ESA’s Science for Society Irrigation+ project, which aims to show how irrigation...

CEOS and CGMS joint Working Group on Climate (WGClimate) has been collecting Use Cases to demonstrate the value of Earth observation satellites for societal benefit and decision...

During a specialized session on "Space at the service of Europe's Defence and Security," the Director of the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), highlighted the notable increase in volume, complexity, quality...