As EU raises its military space profile, EU Satellite Centre prepares to move to center stage

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), which for more than two decades has been producing satellite imagery-based security and military reports for EU nations, is on the threshold of a major increase in responsibility as the EU prepares to manage a constellation of high-revisit, high-resolution spacecraft.

The exact form of the future European Observation Governmental Service (EOGS) remains to be decided. The key marker will be the 2028-2034 EU space budget and whether it will fund a full EU government-owned constellation . . .

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