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A contract signed with Arianespace secures the launch for the third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite. Scheduled to lift off on ESA’s new Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in the first half of 2023, Sentinel-1C will continue the critical task of delivering key radar imagery for a wide range of services, applications and science – all of which benefit society.

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars.

With extreme weather events threatening to be more frequent and more severe as the climate crisis takes grip, it’s never been more important to have fast and accurate forecasts. ESA and Eumetsat are working hard to ensure that there will be a constant stream of weather data from space for the next decades and that these data will arrive faster and be more accurate compared to what we have today.

In the context of the excellent relations between the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) and USSPACECOM and following the invitation of U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Bernacchi, a Romanian delegation led by Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) met with RADM Bernacchi, US Space Command Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate, on 5 April 2022.

Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), is attending the 37th Space Symposium, organised by the Space Foundation in the USA, the single most important event to link government, military and industry at both the level of the US and internationally.