In December 2022, the new Copernicus Data Access Service was kicked-off by ESA, taking the European Union Copernicus program to the next level and ensuring the data to make the greatest possible impact to institutional users, the research community, the commercial sector as well as to every citizen of our planet.

The initial service was launched in January 2023 at dataspace.copernicus.eu. It will become widely available in April 2023 and will be fully operational in July 2023 after a progressive phase-in period corresponding to the phasing out of the current data distribution service, leaving time for users to migrate and familiarise themselves with the new service interfaces. The Copernicus Data Space is also pursuing full interoperability through federation with the Destination Earth future data infrastructures as well as with Member States' earth observation data infrastructures.

The following topics will be addressed during the Townhall Meeting:
- How is the new service different from current Copernicus OpenHub?
- How will the Copernicus data delivery and analysis landscape change?
- What “immediately available data” really means and how can this affect the way EO data is used by the community?
- How will the science community benefit from the new service?
- Download from OpenHub is free, cloud services on Copernicus DIASes are payable – how is it going to be organized in the new Copernicus Data Access Service?