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At the ESA Space Summit in Seville, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, President of Voyager Space Matthew Kuta and Head of Space Systems at Airbus Jean-Marc Nasr signed a Memorandum of Understanding to outline future collaboration for the Starlab Space Station once the International Space Station (ISS) is decommissioned.
The tri-lateral agreement outlines the intention to commonly foster science and technology development and explore the potential for collaboration in conjunction with post-ISS low-Earth orbit destinations.
This agreement reflects ESA's ambition to enable a smooth transition of its activities on the ISS, towards the sustained exploitation of human and robotic infrastructures in low-Earth orbit in the next decade, including through commercial services.