As part of a recent agreement, Japan will provide the EU Copernicus programme with access to data from its non-commercial Earth observation satellites. The European Union and Japan have strengthened ...

On 8 June 2023, the European Earth observation programme Copernicus celebrated its 25th birthday. The information from the seven Sentinel satellites is the basis for research and monitoring of climate ...

The UK has given the clearest statement yet of its desire to stay within the European Union's Copernicus Earth observation programme after Brexit. EU member states are building the most advanced ever ...

Sentinel-5 Precursor, the most recent Copericus satellite to launch, monitors Earth's atmosphere, detecting pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon ...

The past few years have been some of the hottest ever. Scientists are able to observe these sorts of long-term weather trends using satellites and ground-based instruments through the EU's Copernicus ...

– 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 ...

The Sentinel-2B satellite launched in March 2017 is part of Europe’s Copernicus system of Earth-observation satellites. Credit: Airbus WASHINGTON — An agreement between the United Kingdom and the ...

Yet more Sentinel satellites are to be built for the EU's Copernicus Earth observation network. Contracts have been announced with industry to procure spacecraft that can provide information on a ...

The EU and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Copernicus in 1998 with the goal of providing a wide range of geographic data and information such as environmental monitoring. The ambitious ...

Britain is looking to play a bigger role in the European Space Agency if Brussels blocks its continued participation in the EU’s Copernicus earth observation programme. George Freeman, UK science ...

The Philippines is close to sealing a partnership with the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program for a series of pilot projects that will run three years. The projects will focus on ...

UK joins EU Copernicus, Horizon research programmes after agreeing rebate The United Kingdom will join the European Union's satellite programme for Earth observation and Horizon Europe research scheme ...