ESA to ask its governments for $1.5B to design high-resolution imaging constellation; future funding from EU Commission

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — The European Space Agency (ESA) will ask its governments in November to approve a new constellation of high-resolution geospatial imaging satellites for government and military use, a program that ultimately will be co-financed and owned/operated by the European Commission.

The constellation, which the Commission calls Earth Observation Government Service (EOGS), is named European Resilience from Space (ERS) at ESA, but it’s the same idea the Commission has been debating for months -- access to high-resolution imagery anywhere on . . .

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