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Breakfast meeting.
Presented by President Obama on Monday Feb 1st, the new roadmap for NASA puts an end to the Constellation program, appeals to the private sector to service the ISS and aims to re-focus the Agency on innovative technology development. Is this new direction a promising one? What possibilities does it open for future cooperation with ESA and European countries, and what could the latter propose?
With Vincent Sabathier, former CNES Representative at the French Embassy in Washington DC, then a Senior Fellow on Space Issues at CSIS, now Chairman of Sabathier Consulting and Senior Associate for the Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS; Chaired by Dr. Laurence Nardon, Head of the Space Policy Program at Ifri.
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Geopolitical stakes of the New Moon race
As the United States, China, and India solidify their lunar ambitions, Europe is still seeking to define its stance: should it be a reliable partner or an autonomous strategic player? This conference will examine the stakes of this new race to the Moon and Europe’s interest in asserting itself as a lunar power through partnerships, industrial ambitions, and whether its participation in the new lunar race serves as a lever for strategic autonomy and internal cohesion, or an illustration of its dependence.