#50: Earth Observation Programme Proposal at the 2022 Ministerial Council - Simonetta Cheli, ESA

Welcome to episode #50. This is a special one and it is been in the making for a while!

Today, I am speaking with Simonetta Cheli, the Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (or ESA).

November is an important month for ESA as the Ministerial Council is coming up shortly, scheduled on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2022 in Paris. The Ministerial Council is the meeting that happens once in three years, where ESA's Member States, Associate States and Cooperating States come together to make important decisions on the future of ESA programmes and missions.

In this episode, Simonetta and I discuss the proposal from the Earth Observation Directorate at ESA and what is on the table as well as touch on topics such as commercialisation and international cooperation.

- ESA's EO Proposal: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/CM22_EO.pdf

- ESA's  Ministerial Council: https://vision.esa.int/cm22/

- ESA's Vision: https://vision.esa.int/

- Simonetta's Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonettacheli

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[ 01:23 ] : Simonetta's background and experience at ESA

[ 04:42 ] : What's on the table for Earth Observation at the ministerial?

[ 11:08 ] : Commercialisation and ESA's InCubed programme

[ 13:35 ] : ESA's role in the exploitation of EO data

[ 17:03 ] : International collaboration for EO at ESA

[ 21:26 ] : Simonetta's message to the EO community

[ 22:48 ] : Wrap-up