European Space Agency director general @AschbacherJosef:
"We are having completely new sectors of technologies that are coming to the surface" in the space business, accelerated by everything from venture capital to public institutions like ESA. #WSBW
"We are having completely new sectors of technologies that are coming to the surface" in the space business, accelerated by everything from venture capital to public institutions like ESA. #WSBW
@AschbacherJosef Aschbacher: ESA has to be "much faster" and "more dynamic" in the way it interacts with businesses, noting that investment and growth in the space industry "has really been driven forward by the U.S."
@AschbacherJosef Aschbacher: "We have to really adjust significantly the way how we do business with this new space world -- and believe me, I'm very determined to make this happen."
@AschbacherJosef Aschbacher: Three needed ingredients to grow Europe's space sector.
1 - Attract & develop talent
2 - Access to capital
3 - Accelerate process that ESA partners with companies
1 - Attract & develop talent
2 - Access to capital
3 - Accelerate process that ESA partners with companies
@AschbacherJosef Aschbacher: ESA invested more than $1 billion for ExoMars program, and "I should actually be in Baikonur now watching the launch," but the partnership with Russia ended necessarily but painfully due to the war in Ukraine.
@AschbacherJosef Aschbacher: ExoMars situation showed Europe was "heavily dependent on Russia," and several things need to change to be more independent.
ESA discussing a funding package of over €18 billion, of which "several billions" are "purely focused on commercialization."
ESA discussing a funding package of over €18 billion, of which "several billions" are "purely focused on commercialization."
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