On 22-23 February 2023, DG DEFIS hosted the 3rd meeting of the EU Industry and Start-ups Forum on Space Traffic Management (EISF). DG DEFIS and the EU SST Consortium (now EU SST Partnership) discussed with more than 140 participants from the EU SSA commercial sector the scope and activities of the three EISF Working Groups on ‘Commercial Data Provision’, ‘Development of innovative commercial sensors and value chain’, and ‘Services’. Participants engaged actively in the exchanges, thereby helping to shape the work of the EISF in enhancing operational space surveillance capacities of the EU industry.
Background
The EISF gathers more than 150 members from more than 70 EU companies including start-ups, SMEs, midcaps and major actors. Several Research and Technology Organisations (RTO) established in the EU also participate in the EISF. Together with EU stakeholders, they jointly define research and development priorities which are funded by tendering more than 80% of the available EU SST budget to EU industry.
The EISF helps implement the second avenue on “enhancing EU operational capabilities to support STM” of the Joint Communication on an EU approach to STM.
More information
- To learn more about or to join the EISF, check out the EISF one-pager or contact DEFIS-EUSST-INDUSTRYFORUM
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DEFIS-EUSST-INDUSTRYFORUM[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu). - To find out about meetings, go to Space Traffic Management stakeholder mechanism (europa.eu) and navigate to subgroup 2.
- To learn about tendering opportunities, check out Procurement – EU SST.
- Joint Communication on an EU approach to Space Traffic Management
- Space Traffic Management – safeguarding space operations
- STM_Factsheet
- STM_Leaflet
- EISF_OnePager
Details
- Publication date
- 22 February 2023
- Author
- Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space