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Now playing Next business planet How the EU's Copernicus space programme is starting to pay off Since Europe's 1998 decision to have its own Earth Observation system it has spent several billion euros putting the Copernicus programme's Sentinel satellites into space. Despite the huge costs the d 14/10/2016
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