The European Space Agency has signed contracts for three High-Priority Candidate Missions for the agency’s Earth-observing Copernicus program. Combined, the contracts are worth 1.3 billion euros.

The Sentinel-2B satellite launched in March 2017 is part of Europe’s Copernicus system of Earth-observation satellites. Credit: Airbus WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency on July 1 awarded 2.5 ...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe's Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom's re-entry to the EU's Copernicus program, funding has been ...

The third of six ESA satellites has been sent into orbit, arming the Copernicus programme with the ability to monitor population movement, as well as produce far more accurate meteorological readings.

The “ESA and Copernicus Ground Segment Projects Team” in DFD’s International Ground Segment organizational unit is part of a Europe-wide network of reception, archiving and processing centers. Since ...