{"id":266246,"date":"2025-07-15T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266246\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:37:11","slug":"europes-space-act-shows-its-getting-serious-about-space-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266246\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Space Act shows it&#8217;s getting serious about space policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to overhaul European space regulation would come with unprecedented enforcement power over domestic and foreign satellite operators, including on-site inspections and steep fines to uphold safety, cybersecurity and sustainability standards.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/><strong>3 free articles every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly <strong>SpaceNews This Week<\/strong> newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\"><strong>Sign in to an existing account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Get unlimited access<\/strong> to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Use code SNLAUNCH for 30% off your first payment. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Subscriptions renew automatically at full price. Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. Only one discount code valid per subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jason-Rainbow-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information Group,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jason Rainbow\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to overhaul European space regulation would come with unprecedented enforcement power over domestic and foreign satellite operators,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[101493,2000,101494,299,5187,7056,86186],"class_list":{"0":"post-266246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-connecting-the-dots","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-space-act","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-from-the-magazine","14":"tag-sn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114855873254853976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}