UK Joins Atlantic Constellation Project with New Climate-Monitoring Satellite

The UK Space Agency and Open Cosmos are funding and building a satellite to provide critical data on climate change and natural disasters.

The UK is joining the Atlantic Constellation project, an €80 million (£70 million) initiative that is developing a group of satellites to monitor Earth and the effects of climate change.
The UK Space Agency and Oxfordshire-based satellite company Open Cosmos are funding a new satellite for this project, contributing £3 million.
The new UK-built satellite will provide 'valuable and regularly updated data' on the planet and help to detect, monitor, and reduce the risk of natural disasters.
Open Cosmos, which is building the UK satellite, already has one satellite in orbit and plans five more launches by March.
Earlier this year, another UK satellite provided its first pictures of heat variations across the Earth's surface, a capability that can be used in climate-related matters.