The primary need for the further development of the space component in the near term is the strengthening of international coordination efforts to address a range of issues including constellation design and orbit coordination, further development of the ground-based calibration and validation infrastructure to ensure robustness and sustainability, and that the ground-based networks are fit for purpose, and the coordination of research and development activities which will necessarily underpin any future operational virtual constellation for greenhouse gas monitoring. These efforts will be critical to ensure that the final operational virtual constellation will fully achieve the needs of an operational MVS capacity.