Space Sentinels: new ‘tools’ in space to improve European environment and security policies   ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain (right) and European Commission Director General for Enterprise & Industry Heinz Zourek signed in Brussels an agreement which establishes the allocation of an EC budget to ESA as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC).   ESA and EC signed today in Brussels an agreement for the allocation of an EC budget as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC). From left to right: Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Mr Paul Weissenberg, European Commission Director/Coordinator for Aerospace, GMES, Security and Defence with the DG Enterprise & Industry, Mr Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes, and Mr Heinz Zourek, European Commission Director General for Enterprise & Industry.   Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. Release date: 18 August 2008