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Living Planet Programme


The Living Planet Programme (LPP) is a programme within the European Space Agency which is managed by the Earth Observation Programmes Directorate. LPP consists of two classes of Earth Observation missions (see list below) including research missions known as Earth Explorers, and the Earth Watch class of missions whose objective is to develop support operational applications such as numerical weather forecasting or resource management.

Currently there are eight approved Earth Explorer missions, four of which are in orbit and operating:

In addition the following candidate Earth Explorer missions are being prepared:


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