European Space Programme

Key points:

The EESC supports the EU in its efforts to remain a major independent space power and agrees with it acquiring financial resources commensurate with its ambitions.

The EESC also:

• welcomes the importance attached to "space surveillance and tracking" and to the Govsatcom system;
• calls for close attention to be given to the project of extracting and retrieving natural resources outside the earth's orbit (space mining);
• proposes an appropriate campaign, so that citizens realise the added value of European space activities, which are present in their daily lives.

For more information please contact the INT Section Secretariat.