Macron urges Europe to develop 'crewed spaceflight' programme
Macron said Europe should launch its first crewed capsule in 10 years as he pressed for less reliance on U.S. and Russian space services.
- On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe to develop its own crewed spaceflight capability within a decade, aiming to strengthen the continent's space sector and close the gap with the United States and China.
- Europe currently relies on United States and Russian rockets and capsules for missions, as the European Space Agency has never sent a crewed mission into space despite securing a record budget of 22.1 billion euros last year.
- Macron outlined a 10-year roadmap targeting the "first European cargo capsule, Nyx, dock with the International Space Station" in two years and the "first European lunar lander, Argonaut, land on the Moon's surface" in five years.
- European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher emphasized the need for $1.1 billion in annual investment to ensure Europe becomes an "indispensable partner," warning the gap with world leaders is widening both financially and technologically.
- During the International Space Summit in Paris, several United States companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin declined to attend, while attendees acknowledged that "Space Europe is still weak" and faces significant challenges.
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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, this Thursday asked his European partners to dream big and bet on the space sector. He has argued that the European Union and the governments of the 27 must take measures and encourage the investments necessary to make the Old Continent a reality in the next decade a scientific advance, which so far resists it: to launch a spaceship made in Europe and with French, German or other astronauts of the continent…
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Paris, 10 Sep. (askanews) - "Our European space programme remains fragile and we must speed up the pace" said French President Emmanuel Macron at the International Summit on Space in Paris. "But now we must go further and take the European step, up to the great challenges - he continued - First of all with a strong vision. Federare the States, the actors. The European Union, to this end, must take full responsibility for its space policy, ambiti…
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