The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and Olle Norberg, Director General of the Swedish National Space Board (right) signed an Understanding for the Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment Cooperation, at ESA’s headquarters in Paris, France, on 10 June 2015.
Under the agreement, SNSB will coordinate ground segment activities in Sweden – such as hosting, distributing, ensuring access and archiving Sentinel data – and act as an interface between ESA and national initiatives.
As coordinator of the Copernicus ‘space component’, ESA supports national initiatives by establishing direct and efficient access to Sentinel data, providing technical advice on the setting up of data acquisition and dissemination, as well as making data processing and archiving software available to national initiatives.