Nations pursue sovereign space capabilities fortified by commercial services

Poland’s Ministry of National Defence ordered two Earth-observation satellites based on Airbus Defence and Space’s S950 very high resolution optical satellite shown in this artist’s render. Airbus developed the S950 for its Pléiades Neo constellation. Credit: Airbus

Before launching its own satellite, Peru purchased about 10 Earth observation images annually. Since the Airbus-built PeruSat-1 reached orbit in 2016, Peru has gathered and stored more than 500,000 satellite […]

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