An amendment to the current Copernicus Agreement has been signed by the EU and ESA, adding €96 million to ESA's space component budget for the world's largest environmental monitoring programme: Copernicus.

The 3rd Amendment of the EU–ESA Copernicus Agreement was signed at the 11th European Policy Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

This additional contribution of €96 million is related to ESA being entrusted with additional tasks such as the development of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission and the new European Copernicus Data Access and Information Services.

Source: ESA

Image credit: ESA - Signatures add to ESA's resources for Copernicus.

Related Missions:

• Copernicus
• Copernicus: Sentinel-1
• Copernicus: Sentinel-2
• Copernicus: Sentinel-3
• Copernicus: Sentinel-4
• Copernicus: Sentinel-5
• Copernicus: Sentinel-5P
• Copernicus: Sentinel-6
• Copernicus Services