On Wednesday 26 November, the Director General of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, proposed a budget of €1.35 billion for 2026-2029 for a dual-use programme called ‘European Resilience from Space’ (ERS), developed in cooperation with the European Commission (see EUROPE B13740A14). This represents 5% of the budget requested by ESA for the next three years.
“ERS, with its three equally important components - Earth observation; positioning, navigation and timing (PNT); and...