EU deepens collective space security with mutual defense pact
The move is one more step in the EU's long-running, but recently accelerated, effort to create "strategic autonomy" in the space arena.
The move is one more step in the EU's long-running, but recently accelerated, effort to create "strategic autonomy" in the space arena.
Both firms are working under earlier Pentagon contracts to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operators that could also support future orbital warfare.
The current focus is on low cost, high volume commercial cargo reentry pods, an Air Force Research Laboratory spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
The space industry lauded a new Trump administration 1,000-launches-a-year space policy, but experts told Breaking Defense that the current space infrastructure doesn’t have enough capacity and someone’s going to have to pay, potentially a lot, to change that.