On Tuesday 6 June, Frederic Nordlund, Head of External and European Relations at the European Space Agency (ESA), called for greater public investment in space.
“In our internal discourse, we tend to focus on relations with the private sector but we should not lose sight of the fact that public funding is instrumental for us”, he stressed at a conference organised by Friends of Europe.
In his view, public investment in third countries such as India, South Korea, the United States and...