During the 2025 Galileo SAR Meet in Prague, the European Commission, EUSPA, and the Czech Army demonstrated how Galileo SAR contributes to a safer, faster, and more coordinated European search and rescue capability.
Copernicus supports drone operations, particularly ground risk assessments, with free, regularly updated population density data across Europe. This was recently demonstrated in an EUSPA project with drone operators and Civil Aviation Authorities.
The addition of Sentinel-5A will significantly strengthen the capacity for Copernicus to track air quality, emissions and atmospheric composition on a global scale.
The EU Space Security Accreditation Board and the EU Satellite Centre agree to cooperate on the EU Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS) pilot project.
The soon-to-be launched Galileo OSNMA, a data authentication function provides more robust Position, Velocity and Time information to Galileo Open Service users. It will be freely accessible worldwide on 24 July.