{"id":356012,"date":"2026-02-19T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/a-political-space-satellites-as-instruments-of-space-defence-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:40:39","slug":"a-political-space-satellites-as-instruments-of-space-defence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/a-political-space-satellites-as-instruments-of-space-defence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A political space: Satellites as instruments of space defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As space becomes increasingly militarised, what role do satellites play, and where does the EU position itself?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Tech Talks talks to researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=7mFBQyMAAAAJ&amp;hl=it\">Luciano Anselmo<\/a>, GEOSAT CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francisco-vilhena-da-cunha\/\">Francisco Vilhena de Cunha<\/a>, and <abbr title=\"European Union Agency for the Space Programme\" class=\"glossify-tooltip-tip\" lang=\"en\">EUSPA<\/abbr> executive director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rodrigo-da-costa-euspa\/\">Rodrigo da Costa<\/a> to answer these and more questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  EU Agency for the Space Programme &#8211; Linking space to user needs<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euspa.europa.eu\/publications-multimedia\/podcasts\/political-space-satellites-instruments-space-defence\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As space becomes increasingly militarised, what role do satellites play, and where does the EU position itself?\u00a0 Euronews Tech Talks talks to researcher Luciano Anselmo, GEOSAT CEO Francisco Vilhena de Cunha, and EUSPA executive director Rodrigo da Costa to answer these and more questions.\u00a0 EU Agency for the Space Programme &#8211; Linking space to user&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/a-political-space-satellites-as-instruments-of-space-defence-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-news","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Sentinel-1-6CLeFm-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}