{"id":8978,"date":"2025-04-16T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:02:30","slug":"european-space-agency-targets-major-budget-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harici.com.tr\/en\/european-space-agency-targets-major-budget-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"European space agency targets major budget increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-spacing=\"double\">The agency\u2019s Director General, Josef Aschbacher, told <em>Euractiv<\/em> that the ESA is preparing plans for a military-grade reconnaissance satellite network with the EU as part of a record \u20ac21 billion budget spend.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">The war in Ukraine and geopolitical tensions with the US have dispelled the ESA\u2019s reluctance to invest in defense, prompting Aschbacher to discuss spending plans at a meeting with EU officials in Warsaw on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">&#8220;We have a package that we are preparing already\u2026 it is in the order of magnitude of plus or minus around \u20ac21 billion today,&#8221; said Aschbacher.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">The space agency is not part of the EU but has a partially overlapping membership, including the UK and Switzerland. Every three years, space ministers from ESA member states meet to determine and share spending on a range of science and exploration programs.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">At the last summit in Paris in 2022, the capitals pledged a record spend of \u20ac16.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">National budget constraints were expected to hamper efforts to further increase the budget at the next ministerial meeting in Bremen in November.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">But Elon Musk\u2019s threats to cut off Ukraine\u2019s access to Starlink and a more belligerent White House have upended those assumptions, focusing attention on developing space assets as part of a broader European defense push.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">As part of the Bremen plan, Aschbacher is working to develop a reconnaissance satellite constellation program that will beam ultra-high-resolution optical infrared imaging from anywhere in the world to militaries and governments on demand every 20 or 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">A number of EU companies, including Finland-based ICEYE, which provides commercial satellite services to Ukraine, have called for such a program to boost the bloc\u2019s startup scene.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Regarding the plan, Aschbacher said, &#8220;This is exactly breakthrough, we don\u2019t have this in Europe. 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