Ministers participating in the European Space Agency (ESA) summit in Seville, Spain, endorsed its roadmap to ensure Europe’s autonomy and access to space, which includes a more competitive next generation of rockets and cargo vehicles capable of going to and from the space station.
The event, which was attended by the acting Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, comes at a time in which space access and exploration have changed radically and in which, they say, new solutions must be sought.
The space transportation sector around the world is changing at a rapid pace. While the US, China and Russia already have the capacity to launch humans into space, India will soon follow, ESA points out.
SpaceX, with the US government as the primary customer for human and cargo transportation to and from the International Space Station, has established itself as a market leader in commercial space transportation.
ESA admits that Europe’s independent access to space is now in a “temporary crisis.”
#Tecnología Los ministros que participaron hoy en Sevilla (sur) en la cumbre de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) respaldaron su hoja de ruta para garantizar la autonomía y el acceso de Europa al espacio, que incluye una próxima generación de cohetes más competitiva y vehículos… pic.twitter.com/J7WzmXCFcZ
— Enespanol24 (@enespanol24) November 6, 2023
Taken and with information from El Sumario
(Referential image source: Tim Mossholder, Unsplash)
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