ESA and EU Commission prepare four in-orbit demonstrator missions for future intel/reconnaisance network

by Peter B. de Selding

BRUSSELS — The European Space Agency (ESA), freshly endowed by its member governments with a mandate to be more active in European security and defense and encouraged by the European Commission to move fast, is preparing four in-orbit demonstration missions for the Commission’s future intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) constellation.

The demonstrators, to be launched starting as early as 2028, are designed to prepare for the Commission’s future Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS), to be financed in the European Union’s next seven-year budget . . .

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