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#CM22 will be a time for critical decisions. ESA’s Member States, Associate States and Cooperating States must work together to strengthen Europe’s space sector and ensure it continues to serve European citizens.

👉 vision.esa.int/accelerating-s…

It is our ambition for Europe to become a global space power and for space to contribute to a green, digital, safe and inclusive Europe and world as a whole. Creating a broader coalition of partners and ensuring that users are at the heart of this endeavour, is fundamental.

Three initiatives, called ‘Accelerators’, were proposed to speed up the use of space to solve today’s biggest challenges: Space for a Green Future, Rapid and Resilient Crisis Response, Protection of Space .

These projects will demand the best engineering and scientific capabilities of Europe, with the goals to achieve a human-rated launch capability and to create an era-defining exploration mission to return a sample from an icy moon deep within our Solar System.

Accelerating the use of space involves everyone: we can use existing frameworks of data and knowledge for new ideas and new applications, and stimulate European industry to build new missions and stretch the boundaries of the possible

To find out more about what will be proposed at #CM22👉vision.esa.int/cm22/

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