The European Defense Agency signs a space agreement

(BRUSSELS2) The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) took advantage of the air show in Le Bourget (France) to initial an "administrative arrangement" setting the terms of cooperation between the two agencies.

This is, in particular, to be able to identify the capacity deficits that may exist in space equipment, to see which capacities could be shared and supported by the two agencies, to coordinate research and demonstration activities... The The first example of this cooperation will take the form of a joint demonstration project on the satellite-based command and control (C2) device for space drones. Other projects could follow, particularly in reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence (ISR), civil-military synergies in Earth observation, satellite communications, space environment monitoring (SSA)...