European Space Policy: Time to wake up from hibernation?1

• EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
• 09/01/2015

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission created an unprecedented moment of space exploration by putting a spacecraft on the comet’s surface for the first time in history. The Philae lander managed to accomplish the primary goal of its mission and then hibernated for an indefinite amount of time. So did the European space policy several years ago.