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With commercial companies playing an increasingly important role in creating a dynamic and innovative space industry, nine New Space satellite data suppliers have joined the Copernicus programme as Contributing Missions.
The Copernicus Contributing Missions play a crucial role in delivering Earth observation data – complementary to the Sentinel satellite data – to answer to the needs of the Copernicus Services and the needs of public authorities.
Although Copernicus is hugely successful, the aim of bringing emerging European New Space companies into Copernicus is to help keep the programme ahead of the game in the rapidly changing sector of observing Earth from space.