The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached on 16 October 2025 between the European Parliament and the Council on the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), a key instrument to support common procurement and industrial ramp-up
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Today, the Commission and the High Representative have proposed to EU Member States the ‘Preserving Peace – Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030′, a comprehensive plan to strengthen European defence capabilities.
DG DEFIS warmly invites you to the EUDIS Defence Hackathon focusing on Technologies for Space and Defence, scheduled from 17 to 19 October. The EUDIS Defence Hackathon will be held at eight simultaneous locations.
On 6-8 October 2025, DG DEFIS and ESA held this year’s edition of their annual workshop on Near-Earth Objects (NEO). This year’s three-day workshop, attended by over 100 participants, explored ways to improve the quality and reliability of astrometric and radar observations of NEOs.
On 1 October 2025, DG DEFIS and German Aerospace Centre DLR co-hosted an event in Brussels to mark the coming to an end of a seven-year partnership. Participants from across Europe shared their experiences of some of the more than 220 actions undertaken in support of the uptake of data and services
On 4 November 2025, Sentinel-1D will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ensuring the continuity of services on which a wide range of end users rely worldwide.
The European Commission welcomes the publication of the ninth edition of the Copernicus Ocean State Report, published by the Copernicus Marine Service of the EU Space Programme.
Today, the European Commission published first results following the call for commitments launched on the transition pathway for the aerospace ecosystem.
On 17 September 2025, DG DEFIS held a workshop together with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ((KUL) on the design of voluntary measures in the field of space traffic management.
12 seconds—that’s how long it took to make history. On 17 December 1903, two bicycle shop owners from Ohio, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright, completed the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft. The flight covered 36 metres at a speed of just under 11 kilometres per hour and lasted only
