The new Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, during the presentation of his ‘Agenda 2025’ on Wednesday 7 April, insisted at length on the strengthening of cooperation between the EU and his Agency and his desire to organise a ‘Space Summit’ with the European leaders of the ESA and EU Member States in spring 2022.
In a virtual press briefing, the Director General explained that Europe as a whole—both the EU and ESA—needed to come to the...