Sustainability has become a goal not only on Earth, but also in space, with increased awareness of our responsibility to clean up after ourselves in the solar system too. If ignored, we’ll leave future generations with thousands of obsolete satellites and other space debris orbiting Earth, posing a direct danger to any new satellites or missions they may want to launch.
While the European space industry has been largely grounded since 2022, when a technical issue forced its next-gen Vega-C rocket to be painstakingly redesigned, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has led the rest of the world with hundreds of launches.
