The uses of Space Safety

We live in an ever-changing world, with immediate, emerging and long-term risks. With the increasing breadth and diversity of global challenges, the understanding of 'safety and security applications' as a notion has become much broader, extending beyond the traditional military definition.

Today, many space programmes such as weather and Earth observation satellites, the Galileo Public Regulated Service, satellite-based communications, and European launchers serve national and European civil and defence needs on a daily basis. Space is required in order to adequately avoid, mitigate or manage most risks to our society and economy.

'Safety & security applications' on Earth cover a very wide scope of threats that can be difficult to predict. These threats are constantly increasing in scale and diversity and involve a growing number of state and non-state actors.