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Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA signed a contract with Dutch small satellite specialist ISISPACE to develop the Scout Tango mission.
Part of ESA’s FutureEO programme, the Scout missions complement the Earth Explorer missions. However, this new family of missions embraces the New Space era. These compact satellites are conceived to deliver cutting-edge science, either by miniaturising existing technologies or by pioneering new ways of observing Earth from space.
Tango will monitor 150–300 known large industrial facilities and power plants every four days, delivering high-resolution images of emission plumes as well as the surrounding pollution.