On Tuesday December 3, 2024, at 6:20 p.m. local time (9:20 p.m. UTC, 10:20 p.m. CEST) Copernicus Sentinel-1C will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana onboard a Vega C launcher.

Last week saw the recently inaugurated EU Defence Innovation Office (EUDIO) in Kyiv represented in several high-level events, which served to promote international defence industry activities in Ukraine to great effect.

The 8th edition of the EU Copernicus Ocean State Report describes an ocean characterised by increased warming, melting sea ice, widespread and intensifying marine heatwaves, and an unexpected phytoplankton bloom.

As a significant step towards enhancing defence industrial collaboration between the European Union and Ukraine, the EU Defence Innovation Office commenced operations in Kyiv in early September 2024.

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.

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.

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.