LA PLATA, Maryland — European Space Agency (ESA) governments have ordered the agency to prepare a new European Resilience from Space (ERS) reconnaissance program to be submitted for budget approval to ESA’s government ministers in November.
The request testifies to how urgent ESA governments, which are mainly members of the 27-nation European Union, believe it is to accelerate work on what is designed to be a multi-sensor network of high-resolution satellites to be used by European militaries and intelligence services. It also illustrates how . . .
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