In office since March 1, Josef Aschbacher, the new Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), quickly got down to writing his “2025 agenda”.
This document sets its main priorities for the next four years and does not mince words.
"After having missed the turn of the internet and Big Tech
(which gave birth to Gafa, editor's note)
, Europe must avoid suffering the same fate in space."
This, at a time when the Old Continent is under pressure from SpaceX and tomorrow, from Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company.
And where the new commercial markets, united under the name New Space, are on the threshold of unprecedented growth.
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“The New Space revolution threatens the European space economy. And that's just the start: these markets could generate more than $ 1 trillion in revenue in 2040, up from $ 350 billion today. If Europe wants a slice of this huge cake, it must pull itself together ”
, continues Josef
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