Moves to police the afterlife of satellites will open up the market for in-orbit servicing and removal. Meanwhile, the increasing risk of collisions is inspiring development of new space debris monitoring technologies

The race is on to be the first to launch a satellite from a base in Europe, but private space start-ups are finding it hard to get the investment they need for lift off -  and to build a competitive EU sector

The step up in funding is an opportunity to take a bigger role in ESA’s projects and grow Poland’s space sector. But the industry says without a national Polish space programme it will lack a sense of direction

But pandemic not sufficient reason to rip up green and digital research plans, executives say at Science|Business conference

European Space Agency director Johann-Dietrich Wörner talks to Science|Business about returning to the moon, and growing competition in a new spaceflight era

Money is part of €15B bailout for sector and includes the goal of speeding up development of carbon-neutral planes by 15 years

With their future funding in Horizon Europe up in the air, Science|Business is examining what the large public/private joint undertakings have done for us. Here we look at SESAR, set up in 2004 to develop technologies needed to overhaul and harmonise Europe’s airspace

The UK space mission NovaSAR has attracted Australia to take a ten per cent share in the project, which aims to launch a satellite to track forestry management and shipping lanes in early 2018.