On Thursday 9 January, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, said that Europe needed to step up its ambitions in space, given the fact that the Agency’s budget is three times smaller than that of NASA.
“Our Member States and the European Commission can be proud and pleased with what ESA has done and delivered with the funds it has. Europe must increase its ambitions”, he explained to the media. Europe invests just 0.06% of its GDP in public space...