Space 4.0 – a common, democratic European space, part 3

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Abstract

Building a common, democratic European space is
not only a huge economic, industrial and social undertaking. This
is a very complex civilizational and political undertaking, of a
global nature, but generated in our European space giga-region
coordinated by ESA and strongly coupled with the American space
giga-region of NASA. Policies for the implementation of common
democratic space spaces over other giga-regions are slightly
different, so the globalization of the idea of space development is
politically and economically highly hybrid. Various space gigaregions
are more or less politically and economically susceptible to
cooperation and acceptance of certain general principles as a
lasting common denominator. In the NASA and ESA giga-regions
we have the slogans NewSpace and Space 4.0, which we call
together as OpenSpace. A very strong common basis of these gigaregions,
but also of China and India, is the emphasis on developing
and strengthening the private space sector. It is about the creation,
strengthening and development of large companies capable of
producing rockets, transport systems for people and goods, as well
as numerous SME sector companies that can provide a significant
variety of space infrastructure services. The development of space
and satellite technologies in Europe is very uneven. Only a few
countries have their own infrastructure of a self-sustaining space
eco-system. The idea of Space 4.0 includes equalizing space
opportunities in Europe. To become globally competitive, Europe
must carefully implement its policy of equalizing the development
of space technologies in its territory. A version of this paper in
Polish was published in Elektronika Monthly by SEP.

Author Biographies

Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems

University Professor; Editor-in-Chief IJET; Chair Edit. Board Ph.Let.PL; Ed.Adv.Bd. Photonics Spectra; Director of ISE, FE&IT, WUT; Research Secretary, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polish Academy of Sciences; Eisenhower Fellow; SPIE Fellow; Member: IEEE, OSA, EOS, EPS, Jury - The Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, Polish Physical Society, SEP - Assoc.Pol.El.Eng., Photonics Society of Poland.

Piotr Orleański, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences

Director of CBK PAN

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Published

2025-03-26

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Space technologies, Astronomy