Oct 18, 2026 · 13 min · 11 segments
Tomas Jonsson leads the Cassini team at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space. It's the EU's space entrepreneurship programme. He describes how Europe's space…
I think people are used to the idea of a startup.
They know somebody doing something technical in their garage and then eventually getting bigger.
Is that what space is like? When we talk about a space startup, what are they like, really?
some really significant insights into research and development, into a technology, for example, sensors or thrusters or something like that.
And they know how to build one that is more efficient, less costly, and can be produced faster or something like that.
That's the foundation of the companies, so that they can compete with the established players that have sophisticated systems, but often at very high cost.
I think people are used to the idea of a startup.
They know somebody doing something technical in their garage and then eventually getting bigger.
Is that what space is like? When we talk about a space startup, what are they like, really?
some really significant insights into research and development, into a technology, for example, sensors or thrusters or something like that.
And they know how to build one that is more efficient, less costly, and can be produced faster or something like that.
That's the foundation of the companies, so that they can compete with the established players that have sophisticated systems, but often at very high cost.
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