PARIS — The striking success of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Earth observation satellite program in securing funds from ESA member governments masked the fact that the agency’s FutureEO program came up short.
ESA’s Copernicus program offers supporting governments and their industry the hope of recurrent-model satellites ordered by the European Commission. ESA had asked for 1.4 billion euros and received 1.8 billion and will be able to finance all six Copernicus Sentinel satellites.
FutureEO cannot make that . . .
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