ESA Seeks To Speed Up Emergency Response

摘要

Prospective users of European space systems for civil security and defense purposes have said their top priorities are quicker response to emergencies and more assets under European, as opposed to U.S. or other foreign, control, the European Space Agency (ESA) has concluded.rnThe 18-nation ESA, with the encouragement of the 27-nation European Union's executive commission, is gradually broadening its mandate to include dual-use space systems and even purely military programs so long as they are "non-aggressive" and thus do not violate the agency's charter.rnAs a result, the agency is investigating a suite of telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation missions that would serve both civil and military purposes.