Responding to Agenda 2025

Upon first becoming Director General, Josef Aschbacher presented Agenda 2025 – his vision of a stronger future European space sector. It begins with a mention of the Agency’s Technology Strategy, originally issued in 2018, which addresses how ESA develops technologies needed to achieve Europe’s goals in space, and returns to the subject frequently.

ESA Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality Torben Henriksen explains: “Underlining the importance of ESA’s technical competence, Agenda 2025 asked for a focus on speed in the introduction of new technologies, a doubling of investment on ‘game-changing’ technologies and the launching of three new technology R&D initiatives.

“This new Version 1.2 of the Technology Strategy incorporates the technology guidance from Agenda 2025, showing how Agenda 2025 will be implemented in practice across all ESA’s R&D programmes, as well as how far the Agency has progressed during the last four years.”