During his closing speech at the EU Space Conference on Wednesday 22 January, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, stressed his desire to make progress on ‘space situational awareness’ (SSA) at European level so that, in the long term, a European space traffic management system can be established and have an influence in negotiations at global level.
“Space situational awareness to avoid collisions and debris on key satellites – this is something we...