Eurospace Contribution “Transition Pathway for ASD”

Competitiveness is what drives – and allows – industry’s capability to design, deliver and exploit state-of-the-art space systems, required by public and private customers worldwide. The creation by the European Commission of a Transition Pathway for the Aerospace and Defence (ASD) ecosystem is much-welcome step towards increasing industry competitiveness as it finally echoes the long-time call of the European space industry for the EU to eventually devise a real, and ambitious, space industrial policy.

In particular, as the Transition Pathway is also supposed to address the “long term resilience of the sector”, such an industrial policy is needed to stay up-to-date and apprehend at best the characteristics of the European space sector, as reflected in our official contribution to the ongoing consultation of the European Commission, HERE.