Europe’s space industry needs a ‘quantum leap’

European Space Agency Director Josef Aschbacher said on Tuesday that the Continent’s space industry needs “a quantum leap in innovation and technology,” which could be achieved by transforming its “intellectual excellence into industrial scale” as it has done in the aircraft and automotive industries. The esa is looking to incentivize more space start-ups, investment and development. The same day, French Space Minister Philipe Baptiste called for a Europe-wide policy, launchers, satellites and other assets, fully independent of the United States. Alongside other recent comments and developments in which Europe is separating from the U.S. politically and militarily, a “quantum leap” in space for the Europeans could be deadly dangerous for the modern descendants of Israel.