A senior European Commission official assured MEPs on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), on Monday 21 March, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and recent announcements that the Russian space agency Roscosmos will withdraw from the Guiana Space Centre will have only a “limited” impact on the continuation of Europe’s flagship space programmes.
Evi Papantoniou, Head of Unit for Space Policy in the Defence Industry and Space DG (DG DEFIS), repeated the statement of...