The European Space Market Needs to De-risk Demand, Not Just Supply
The European space ecosystem funds top research, makes and opens extremely valuable data, trains top scientists and engineers … then buys the finished capability from abroad, often with European roots. What can break this pattern is to copy what works elsewhere: crowd in public customers to de-risk dependable home-market demand (not supply). Growth investment will follow, and so will the benefits. Ljubljana — Sinergise’s hometown — as seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2: the open data a small Slovenian team turned into a product the world used. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO). ...