Whose space is it? Europe scrambles as US rules satellite race

Whose space is it? Europe scrambles as US rules satellite race To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Issued on: With the digital age comes the scramble for minerals below us and the scramble to master the heavens above us. Donald Trump wants a thousand rocket launches a year and with SpaceX’s reusable modules leading the way, the United States towers over the competition. It’s why for instance Ukraine’s president has to beg Elon Musk to use his Starlink low orbit satellite system to take out the Russian cruise missile launchers. Europe’s late to the game. Its Ariane rocket only plans between nine and 11 launches next year. We’ll ask about Norway’s first private launch of a German satellite this past weekend and more broadly, whether there’s room for everyone in an orbit already littered with debris. If you’re rooting for global cooperation on managing those skies above, you may disappointed. The Germans dropped out of co-hosting the Paris International Space Summit and the White House reportedly leaned on US aerospace leaders to stay away. Does space need regulating? How urgently? And it not, then what? Produced by François Picard, Maya Yataghène, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Andrew Hilliar.