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Europe commissions two designs for a future satellite service
ESA has selected teams led by ICEYE and Leonardo to study the architecture of a proposed European government Earth-observation service.
The parallel studies cover satellites, ground systems, data handling and delivery. The future service is intended to support security and crisis response. These are design contracts, not an announcement that the satellite network is already operating.
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