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EU aims to curb carbon footprint through investment in space
A €15 billion fund is set to bolster the EU’s space program, making it autonomous from China and the US. EU commissioners also see this as an important step for the continent’s green and digital transitions.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep most of Europe on pause, the EU aims for a breakthrough in its space program. The continent is seeking more than just a self-sufficient space industry competitive with China and the US; the industry must also fit into the European Green Deal. Strategic autonomy in space
th European Space Conference on Wednesday, Gerry Collins, network and services policy expert for
ESOA stated that the satellite industry needs to change its way of doing business in order to make the most of new 5G opportunities. “The satellite industry has a terrible habit of over-complicating things,” he said, and the discussion “has to move beyond Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) vs. Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) vs. Geostationary Orbit (GEO).”
“We need to be able to provide services in different verticals,” Collins said. “If we are able to do that, it will increase the value of the industry. But, the really key thing is that we are working on standards. We haven’t had an ability to integrate our technologies into bigger solutions, but now we need too.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) fully supports the EU space program, which can play a key role in boosting the bloc’s efforts to battle climate change and curbing CO2 emissions, EIB Vice President Ambroise Fayolle told a press event during the online 13th European Space Conference on January 13.
Portugal’s minister for science, technology and higher education, Manuel Heitor, on Wednesday (14 January) described space as a “critical resource” in the EU green and digital transition and in promoting “a new future for Europeans”.
He said that European space development policy should be based on “three terms of reference”: promoting supply, strengthening demand and building bridges linking the two.
In terms of supply, the minister said that “the role of governments in general, and the European Commission in particular, should be to create markets” in areas that extend from the register of land and biodiversity – “which are not traditionally in the space sector, but which need high-resolution satellite images” – to “productivity of land and agriculture, maritime surveillance, sustainable urban development and autonomous mobility.