On 25 February 2025, Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, chaired a High-Level Roundtable with the representatives of some of the most consequential financial stakeholders in the EU.

The next EUDIS Defence Hackathon competition will be launched on Europe Day, 9 May, and will continue until 11 May.

Copernicus Sentinel-4 expands the capabilities of Copernicus, providing high-resolution and near real-time air quality monitoring to support health, environmental and climate policies.

Today the European Commission officially launched the EUDIS Business Accelerator and Matchmaking (BAMM) programme under the EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS), a flagship initiative of the European Defence Fund (EDF) to support new defence companies.

Copernicus continues to demonstrate its responsiveness to the needs and demands of the user community with the recently announced exceptional and temporary extension of the availability of the data from the Sentinel-2A satellite mission for one year.

Qascom, in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), is set to make history by achieving the first-ever satellite navigation positioning fix from the Moon using Galileo and GPS signals.

The European Commission has adopted the fifth annual Work Programme under the European Defence Fund (EDF), allocating €1.065 billion to collaborative defence research and development (R&D) projects.

One of the top priorities is the full rollout of the EU’s Space flagship programmes: Galileo, Copernicus, SSA (Space Surveillance and Awareness), and GOVSATCOM. These programs will be further enhanced to ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of space innovation and security.

The European Commission and several Member States (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain) have signed a joint declaration to support the deployment of an In-Space Operations and Services (ISOS) pilot mission.