Press Release: New EDA project on space-based Earth surveillance system

The Steering Board of the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced, on 5 March 2009, that it had agreed to approve a project for the next generation European military earth observation satellites. This Multinational Space-based Imaging System (MUSIS) project has been launched by six European Union Member States: Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Italy and Spain. The project has now become an EDA Category B project and will be open to participation of other EDA participating Member States, if their proposed contribution is acceptable to the existing contributing Members.

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European Commission: Website: Global monitoring for environment and society (GMES) http://www.gmes.info/

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