On 20 May 2014 at the ILA Berlin Air Show, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the US corporation Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. (TBE) signed an agreement to install and operate the imaging spectrometer DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) on board the International Space Station (ISS). This DLR-built instrument will be one of four camera systems for remote sensing fitted to the MUSES (Multi-User System for Earth Sensing) instrument carrier to be installed by TBE on the ISS. DESIS will be able to detect changes in the land surface, oceans and atmosphere; it will contribute to the development of effective measures to protect the environment and climate. 

   "This scientific-industrial partnership with TBE will enable us to use the ISS as a long-term carrier of Earth observation instruments as it travels through space," explained Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the DLR Executive Board. The project is intended to open up new possibilities in Earth observation and is the first to be developed in cooperation with a commercial enterprise. 

For a little more insight into the project see this：http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-10329/#gallery/14860