ESA's Third Party Missions programme consists of Earth observation satellites that are owned by commercial and public organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with the organisations to promote the availability of their data, to support research and application development. In parallel, the activities of the programme help boost commercialisation in Europe.

This infographic highlights how ESA is encouraging commercial advances in remote sensing by working with these organisations, including emerging New Space start-ups:

Some of the most recent commercial missions that joined the Third Party Missions programme include:

• GHGSat
• ICEYE
• Planet's SuperDove
• SkySat
• Pléiades Neo
• Vision-1
• Spire
• SatelliteVu* 
• Unseenlabs*

* SatelliteVu and Unseenlabs are currently under assessment and information about these missions will be published soon.