EU Border and Internal Security
The EU Border and Internal Security market segment encompasses a broad range of activities aimed at protecting people, safeguarding the environment, and ensuring the effective organisation of societies. This includes enhancing situational awareness, deterring and mitigating hostile actions, and managing a wide spectrum of threats, risks, and hazards that may endanger EU citizens and critical infrastructure.
Through the EU Space Programme, the EU strengthens its ability to conduct security and surveillance operations with greater efficiency and precision. Key components such as Galileo and EGNOS support border control and internal security by providing accurate and authenticated positioning services. Meanwhile, the Copernicus programme enhances border monitoring and maritime surveillance through high-resolution Earth observation imagery.
Upcoming services from GOVSATCOM, and in the future IRIS², will provide secure and resilient communication channels for these operations, ensuring connectivity even in remote or contested environments.
The alignment of the EU Space Programme with the EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence reflects a strategic and coordinated approach to security, defence, and dual-use capabilities. By leveraging advanced space assets, the EU not only reinforces its own surveillance and crisis response capacity but also contributes to broader goals of international security, stability, and peace.
