ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher said that Space HPC would open up new opportunities for space businesses in Europe: "With this new facility, ESA is providing a flexible supercomputing infrastructure in support of R&D, testing and rapid benchmarking for ESA programmes, industrial players and researchers. Among others, SMEs, startups and the Philabs will be able to access resources that promote innovation and collaboration in the European space industry.

"The Space HPC provides a critical infrastructure to power the connected digital economy in support of the European Green Deal and Digital Agenda. ESA remains at the service of the space community in its quest to become more agile and effective, keeping European citizens at the very heart of the work it does.”

ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun added that Space HPC showed not only what the Member States can bring to ESA, but what ESA can bring to the Member States.

ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Simonetta Cheli, who also heads the establishment at ESRIN said: “Earth observation as the largest programme of ESA is naturally a key actor in the HPC domain, with strong impact on Earth observation data management and the development of novel applications and services. This symbiotic relationship is aided by the proximity to the Earth observation data here at ESRIN.