The term “A distant third place” has never been more apt.
This is about private startup investment, and it only reflects the markup of the UK’s space sector in terms of private-public composition, and it comes from the fact that the UK only recently started to look back at a national space strategy after having torn down what they used to have. Other European countries don’t have high startup investment either because they have long-standing big private space companies, big public-participated space companies or both.
If you look at other metrics, like contribution to the ESA’s budget for example, they tell a different story.
Economic investment in the space sector and in Europe? Good news no matter how you look at it, a breath of fresh air among so much negative news that surrounds us.
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The term “A distant third place” has never been more apt.
This is about private startup investment, and it only reflects the markup of the UK’s space sector in terms of private-public composition, and it comes from the fact that the UK only recently started to look back at a national space strategy after having torn down what they used to have. Other European countries don’t have high startup investment either because they have long-standing big private space companies, big public-participated space companies or both.
If you look at other metrics, like contribution to the ESA’s budget for example, they tell a different story.
Economic investment in the space sector and in Europe? Good news no matter how you look at it, a breath of fresh air among so much negative news that surrounds us.