The pathfinder craft, co-funded by £3m from the UK Space Agency, will provide data to help detect and monitor natural disasters

The UK will help fund and build a new spacecraft that will help scientists monitor the climate crisis and natural disasters.

The new pathfinder satellite will be funded with £3m from the UK Space Agency, joining Spain and Portugal in the €80m (£70m) Atlantic Constellation project. Co-funding will be provided by Open Cosmos, based on the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire.

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