Europe has ambitious plans for space, but does it have the workforce to deliver them? With the sector looking towards 100,000 skilled workers by 2030, the challenge is not simply finding more people, …

Africa is one of the fastest-growing space regions in the world, with national programmes moving from first satellites to sovereign capability. But international partnerships have not always delivered …

The Asia-Pacific is the most dynamic space theatre on the planet. As capability spreads rapidly across the region, strategic competition intensifies, and new architectures of alliance take shape, Euro …

The "dual-use" label has had its day. For too long it's been political cover and a way for investors to back defence assets while keeping civilian LPs comfortable. The honest thesis is simpler: the ur …

Secure, resilient communications are the foundation of any military operation, and Europe is building its own. IRIS' is designed to give governments and armed forces a sovereign connectivity layer tha …

Deployed forces depend on communications that keep working when someone is trying to stop them. That now means drawing on military and commercial satellites across several orbits and making them work …

Demand for European space hardware is rising across both commercial and defence markets, and the question is whether the industry can build it fast enough. Scaling production takes more than added cap …

A national space ambition only works if the people delivering it are pulling in the same direction. In this fireside chat, the UK Space Agency's co-directors discuss what it takes to align government, …

The need to move from defence reliance to defence resilience, the cost of fragmentation across Europe's space and defence industries, and the urgency of securing autonomous access to space, these are …

Europe has set its defence readiness targets for 2030. The question this panel asks bluntly is whether its industrial base can actually meet them, and if not, what has to change. This is not a panel o …

Commercial space services have been indispensable in all recent major conflicts, but in Ukraine they were a critical part of the Order of Battle. Alongside the rapid adaptation of drones, AI and other …

Europe's ambitions in defence, commercial services and exploration all depend on one thing: reliable access to orbit. Demand for launch is growing fast, but capacity is limited and Europe still leans …

The EU Space Act sets out to do two things at once: strengthen Europe's security, resilience and sustainability in orbit, and keep its space economy competitive enough to grow. As trilogue negotiation …

NATO is moving from recognising space as an operational domain to building the structures, programmes and commercial relationships needed to support Alliance operations, but for industry, navigating h …

Satellite communications and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance have been central to Ukraine's defence since the full-scale invasion began. This keynote offers a first-hand account of how t …

Positioning, navigation and timing sit underneath almost everything modern forces and infrastructure do and jamming and disruption are already part of daily operations in contested regions. This sessi …

The commercialisation gap in Europe's space infrastructure is not a technology problem, or a funding problem. It is a signal problem. The system integrators, defence primes and investors who must buil …

Europe is in a race it did not choose. The threat timeline, late 2020s, early 2030s, is real, and the capabilities needed to meet it will take years to build if they are built in Europe, or months to …

In November 2021, an anti-satellite missile test generated over 1,500 trackable debris fragments and forced the ISS crew to shelter, a stark reminder that debris in orbit carries strategic as well as …

The ultimate 'high ground' is now an arena in which geopolitical competition and tensions are played out. This keynote looks at how we got here, and where we are going. Private enterprise, and new tec …

Ask most insurers, shipping companies, telecoms providers, emergency services or cloud businesses whether they're part of the space industry, and the answer will almost certainly be no. Yet many of th …

Space is no longer a two-power race. As new national programmes emerge, old alliances evolve, and strategic competition intensifies, Europe faces a defining question - not just how to build capability …

The Atlantic Ocean is the artery of Western civilisation. It carries the trade, the data, and the defence relationships that underpin everything from financial markets to military command. It is also …

Space-Comm does not exist to host conversations. It exists to change things. Over two days, this programme has brought together the people shaping Europe's space advantage, government, military, indus …

The EU Space Act is designed with satellite operators in mind, but its consequences reach much further. Insurers, energy majors, telecoms and cloud providers are all now core users of space-derived da …

Space is no longer just about launch vehicles and satellites. It's the connective tissue of modern defence: navigation, timing, secure communications, intelligence, missile warning, earth observation. …

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the most significant emerging space markets on the planet - and European industry is not yet making the most of it. Across the region, national space program …

Microgravity is quietly transforming pharmaceutical development: purer protein crystallisation, more realistic tissue modelling, and drug formulations simply impossible to replicate on Earth. Research …

Securing Europe's space advantage depends on more than its biggest players. Across Europe and beyond, emerging space nations are building capable industries and looking for international partners, wit …