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PROJECTS
Data
VHR data for Copernicus
Marble’s first anchor contract with ESA: very high-resolution data from its constellation for the Copernicus Contributing Missions programme.
Partner
European Space Agency (ESA)
Programme
Copernicus Contributing Missions
Value
€3 million
Period
Three-year contract, signed June 2025
Location
Bremen, Germany and Vienna, Austria
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BRIEF
Announced
Marble’s CSO and Co-Founder Dr. Gopika Suresh holding the contract next to ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Dr. Simonetta Cheli (middle), and ESA CCM team at Living Planet Symposium 2025
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The task
Europe depends heavily on non-European providers for very high-resolution multispectral data. Copernicus integrates emerging European New Space companies to stay at the forefront of Earth Observation.
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What Marble does
Marble supplies very high-resolution data from its upcoming constellation, harmonised with Sentinel-2 so it fits the existing Copernicus ecosystem, at higher resolution and with more frequent revisits.
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Where it stands
Through the three-year contract, ESA assesses Marble’s development towards operational status, preparing it to become an established European data provider for future Copernicus data tenders.
Simonetta Cheli
Director of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA
“The aim of integrating emerging European New Space companies into Copernicus is to ensure the programme remains at the forefront of Earth Observation in a fast-evolving sector.”
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