Europe’s space agency welcomes UK deal with EU on satellites

PARIS: The European Space Agency on Friday welcomed a deal for Britain to resume full membership of Europe’s Copernicus programme, easing doubts over the next batch of climate-tracking satellites and the completion of development work by European space firms.

Britain said on Thursday it would re-join both Copernicus and the European Union’s Horizon science research programme, ending a two-year post-Brexit standoff over funding.