2008-2018 has been a decade of European initiatives, decisions and measures of space policy. With "A Space Strategy for Europe" proposed by the European Commission and adopted by EU leaders in 2016 and with the "Space 4.0 for a United Space in Europe" proposed by the Director General of ESA and approved by the Ministerial Council during the same year, Europe certainly does not lack of vision at this beginning of 2018. But to have a vision and a strategy is an essential but not sufficient thing. Europe must have also the scientific, technological,industrial and financial means to put its ambitions into reality, as the experts said during the 10th Annual Conference on European Space "More Space for more Europe".
In this January 2018 three European Union's programs are already deployed or in their deployment phase: 42 land stations allow EGNOS to offer, especially to meet the needs of civil aviation, it's service of correction of the geo-localization's data delivered by other GNNS system. With 22 satellites now in orbit GALILEO is offering since December 2016 it's first highly performing services of navigation and positioning. COPERNICUS the earth observation program, has already 6 Sentinels in space, providing an ever growing flood of very reliable data appreciated globally.
For its access to space Europe benefit today from new European launchers, Ariane 5 and Vega and in 2020 of 2 rockets of new generation: Ariane 6 and Vega C.
