With the launch of Sentinel-3B on 25 April 2018, ESA has handed over another Sentinel satellite to the EC for its Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. ESA’s Josef Aschbacher and the EC’s Philippe Brunet talk about how this latest launch completes the first batch of missions for Copernicus and how the two organisations work together to provide the best space technologies for monitoring our planet. With this sustained collaboration, ESA and the EC are now also looking to the future to develop new state-of-the-art satellite missions to further benefit the environment, the economy and everyday lives.