There are multiple potential futures 🔮 that could arise from a lack of collaboration in #SpaceGovernance. Without further cooperation and agreement among the major and minor #SpacePowers, multiple, competing governance systems may end up being established, further increasing the potential for #conflict 💣 https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2022/11/governance-in-space-mining-the-moon-and-beyond.html

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

#Autonomy refers to the state’s ability to #independently set directions 🧭, define policies ✏️, and #operate 🚀 in the space realm by relying on its own strengths and resources.
#Europe 🇪🇺 lags behind prominent #SpacePowers in several critical hard capacity macro-areas such as human #SpaceExploration, Space Situational Awareness, and #SpaceControl. The current #European #launcher crisis provides a poignant illustration of the inherent risk of losing 📉 hardcore capabilities. https://www.espi.or.at/briefs/europe-as-a-space-power/

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Europe as a Space Power - ESPI

This Brief builds on new ESPI book “Power, State and Space” which sets forth comprehensive, cross-disciplinary conceptual framework aimed at a dynamic comparison of space actors, taking into account their technical, industrial and political characteristics as well as the trajectories that bring them in or take them out of ‘the club’ of space powers. The […]

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#BBC 📆 23 March 2023 #Europe 🇪🇺 risks being a spectator 👀 in next #SpaceRace. "A European citizen is taxed €1.5 💶 a year to support the #space effort. A doubling of that would allow all of this to take place". #NASA spends the equivalent of #ESA's entire annual budget on #HumanSpaceflight https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65053729

#HLAG report* : As all non-#European permanent Members of the #UN Security Council (#US 🇺🇸, #China 🇨🇳, #Russia 🇷🇺) are #SpacePowers with autonomous #HumanSpaceflight capabilities and are soon to be joined by #India 🇮🇳, #Europe’s lack of ambition stands in isolation https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/h-lag_brochure.pdf

*High-Level Advisory Group on #Human and #Robotic #SpaceExploration for Europe 🇪🇺

Europe risks being 'a spectator in next space race'

The continent is in danger of missing out on the next big tech boom, an influential panel warns.

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