PARIS — The European Commission, as part of a strategy to add a defense component its civil space programs, is evaluating multiple changes to the Copernicus environment-monitoring satellites including adding hosted payloads with military sensors.
It is also considering a constellation that would be jointly owned with the private sector to boost Copernicus's commercial relevance.
The new Copernicus direction comes at time when the program is struggling with a funding shortfall of 750 million euros ($846 million) in the Commission’s seven-year budget . . .
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