On 11 September 2024, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defense Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) kicked-off a 30-month project to develop Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) and Environmental Footprint (EF) compliant datasets, specific for the space sector.

In the night between 17 to 18 September 2024 at 00:50 am (Brussels time), two new Galileo satellites were successfully placed in orbit, as part of the completion of the deployment of the Galileo constellation.

As a further sign of developing defence industrial cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, the EU Defence Innovation Office started its activities early September in Kyiv.

Today the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SPACE aisbl for the co-programmed European Partnership for Globally Competitive Space Systems (“Space Partnership”) in the context of Horizon Europe.

A brand-new Copernicus Sentinel satellite was successfully launched last night from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, onboard a Vega rocket operated by Arianespace on September 5 at 03:50 am CET or September 4, 22:50 pm local time.

DG DEFIS is partnering with the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) to organise the Defence Tech Investor Forum, taking place during the European Angel Investment Summit (EAIS) in Brussels on 15-16 October.

Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) was successfully launched on Sunday August 11 (10:02 p.m. EDT).

Procuring together defence capabilities: first ever call to support joint procurement of defence capabilities closes with significant interest from Member States and Norway.

On Tuesday September 3, 2024, at 10.50 p.m. local time (September 4, at 1.50 a.m. UTC, 3.50 a.m. CET), from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard a Vega launcher.