European Space Agency hoping for UK involvement in EU-funded space programmes – Irish Examiner

The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes the UK can strike a deal in Brussels for involvement in European Union (EU) funded ESA programmes.
While ESA is non-governmental and the UKs membership is not in question, some of the agencys programmes are financed by the EU.
But for other projects, such as the Earth observation programme Copernicus, the situation is a bit more complicated.
Copernicus is based on mixed contributions where some satellites are paid for by ESA, and others are directly funded by…

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