ESA is preparing an ambitious Earth Observation programme addressing a large range of applications and Earth science issues. The Earth Explorer missions are pivotal to FutureEO programme. Phase A studies are being concluded for the Earth Explorer 10 mission, HARMONY, and Phase 0 studies have also been initiated for four Earth Explorer 11 candidate missions, WIVERN, CAIRT, SEASTAR, and NITROSAT.
The FutureEO Programme is also including an opportunity mission, to be developed in cooperation with NASA in the framework of MAGIC, the Next Generation Gravity Mission.
Earth Explorers provide also sound heritage for developing future operational missions. An example is based on the recent success of wind lidar mission Aeolus, and ESA is running preparatory activities for the development of the Aeolus 2 mission, in view of future wind lidar mission to be operated by EUMETSAT.
In the frame of the next generation of the Copernicus Sentinel missions, ESA is conducting phase A studies for Sentinel1-NG, Sentinel 3 Topographic and phase 0 studies for Sentinel 2 and 3 NG.
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