Faced with increasingly aggressive international competition and soaring energy costs, the European launcher industry is under severe strain. The budgetary ambition of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union is therefore a key issue for André-Hubert Roussel, Chief Executive Officer of ArianeGroupand Eurospace, who spoke to EUROPE on Wednesday 26 October.
The budgetary issue and, more generally, the future of the European launcher sector (in particular the development of...