🛰️ EROSS SC at the International Space Summit – Grand Palais, Paris

This week, Stéphanie BEHAR LAFENETRE, coordinator of the EROSS SC project at Thales Alenia Space, joined heads of state, ministers, space agencies and industry leaders at the first International Space Summit.

One message ran through the room: Europe's security and sovereignty increasingly depend on space.

"It is impossible to protect Europe without space," said Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space, during the "Space Security: answers from Europe" session. Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius added that "rules alone cannot protect freedom and peace – capabilities will."

But those capabilities don't stop at launch. Protecting Europe's space assets also means keeping them working: refuelling, repairing and upgrading satellites in orbit, safely removing debris, and extending the life of the infrastructure our societies rely on.

That resilience is exactly what EROSS SC is building – a European on-orbit servicing capability that makes space more autonomous, more sustainable and, ultimately, more secure.

Proud to bring the on-orbit servicing perspective into the conversation shaping Europe's future in space.

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