Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22. Since its early days back in the seventies, Earth Day has striven to build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and the planet. As an engine of this transformative change, space tech supports the goals of Earth Day by enabling innovative solutions that promote sustainable economic growth that is decoupled from resource use.

In the context of the extremely fast evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic, the health of ESSP personnel is of primary concern. Concurrently, ESSP must join in the European effort to slow down the development of the epidemic.

The 12th European Space Conference held in Brussels received more than 1000 attendees. The clear focus was the growth plans, climate ambitions, security and defense in European space technology

Carlo des Dorides took up his position as executive director of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) on February 1, 2011. In the nine years since then, the Galileo programme has progressed from a project on paper to an operational programme with over a billion users around the globe. As his term at the helm of the Agency draws to an end, the GSA executive director looks back at the successes and challenges of the past nine years and speaks about his hopes for the future.