PARIS — The European Commission has been calling for the elimination of barriers between space and military programs for well over a year. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided a strong tailwind for the effort.
Aside from using budget mechanisms, the Commission has proposed that the now decidedly civil Copernicus Earth observation program — with worldwide “full, free and open access” to its data — is being fitted with a military application.
It’s not clear how this will be done. Ideas being floated include hosted military . . .
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