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Six new missions for the European Copernicus Earth observation programme | |
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2020-07-01 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 德国 |
领域 | 地球科学 |
正文(英文) | Sentinel satellites are at the heart of Copernicus, Europe's largest Earth observation programme. Sentinels are already reliably and continuously providing large amounts of data on the state of the climate, vegetation and oceans. Now, six more 'Earth Guardians', the High Priority Candidate Missions (HPCM), are being added. "At the Space 19+ European Space Agency (ESA) Council Meeting at Ministerial Level held in Seville in November 2019, Germany set the course for a strong commitment to European spaceflight," explains Walther Pelzer, Member of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Executive Board and Head of the DLR Space Administration. "Now, Germany's space industry will play a major role in the expansion of the world's most powerful space infrastructure for the provision of global environmental information." On 1 July 2020, ESA awarded contracts worth more than 2.5 billion euro for the development and construction of the HPCM satellites, around 800 million euro of which will go to space companies in Germany. Investment in ESA programmes supports the German space industryAt the ESA Council meeting at ministerial level in November 2019, Germany committed approximately 3.3 billion euro for future space programmes and, with a subscription of almost 23 percent, became ESA's largest contributor. Investments in the field of Earth observation were increased to 720 million euro. "These investments are now flowing back to Germany in the form of contracts," says Pelzer. "What is particularly pleasing here is not only the strengthening of the space industry as a whole, but, above all, the very high volume of orders – around 24 percent – for small and medium-sized enterprises, which form the backbone of the space industry in Germany." More than 1000 high-tech jobs in hardware development will be secured for years to come by the planned expansion of Copernicus, thus continuing the international leadership role that Germany holds in Earth observation. Copernicus will also develop innovative services and technologies that provide new opportunities for commercial applications – for example in the area of 'Big Data' – and thus offer a wide range of opportunities for start-up companies in the space industry. Climate and environmental protection as a global challenge"Already today, the extensive datasets from Copernicus are helping to find answers to the global challenges posed by climate change, population growth and environmental problems," says Jörn Hoffmann, Programme Manager for Copernicus at the DLR Space Administration. "The information is also the basis for numerous services and applications in areas such as environmental protection, agriculture, transport and disaster relief." The Copernicus system delivers a data volume of approximately 25 terabytes per day, which is roughly equivalent to the data capacity of 1000 Blu-ray discs. If these discs were stacked on top of each other, after a year the tower would be three times the height of the Cologne Cathedral. The six new High Priority Candidate Missions are intended to make the Copernicus system even more powerful and expand its range of applications. Overview of the new missions:
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Copernicus – the European Earth Observation ProgrammeCopernicus is the Earth observation programme of the European Union (EU). The Programme is coordinated and managed by the European Commission. It is implemented in partnership with the Member States, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), EU Agencies and Mercator Océan. It serves to collect and evaluate Earth remote sensing data. These are used by public authorities, commercial organisations, scientific researchers and interested citizens. To date, six families of satellites have been developed especially for Copernicus. They are known as Sentinels and record the state of Earth and its atmosphere and thus provide important data on climate protection, sustainable development, humanitarian aid and civil security. The satellite data are supplemented by measurement instruments performed on the ground, in the air and on water. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) are responsible for operating the 20 environmental satellites. In Germany, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur; BMVI) is responsible for Copernicus. The DLR Space Administration in Bonn is supporting the implementation of the programme in Germany. |
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来源平台 | German Aerosapce Center |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/282369 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
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