It is estimated that a budget of €8 billion will be needed for the future of the European Earth observation programme Copernicus, said Simonetta Cheli, Head of the Coordination Office, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (ESA) headquarters when contacted by EUROPE on Friday 10 November.
These are only initial figures, which are absolutely not definitive and which will be up for debate among the ESA member states and the European Union, Cheli emphasised,...