From The BBC:The UK government has been urged to fund the next stage of a major European programme to monitor the effects of global climate change from space.
The trade body UKspace made the call ahead of a key ministerial meeting.
Britain entered Kopernikus, the world's biggest environmental monitoring project, at a quarter of the funding level preferred by industry.
UK companies are understood to have lost out on lucrative contracts as a result.
The programme will combine data from state-of-the-art satellites and hundreds of other sources to provide an accurate understanding of the land, oceans and atmosphere.
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