00:00If you had to boil down the speech by ISA Director General Josef Aschbacher at a 2025
00:05ministerial conference to a single sentence, it would probably be this one.
00:11In space, to stand still is to fall behind. Standing still means falling behind.
00:17And that wasn't a metaphor. That was a diagnosis. Because what Aschbacher did there in Bremen
00:24wasn't a budget speech. It was a strategic assessment of Europe's position in a world
00:29that is currently realigning itself. Essentially, he's saying three things.
00:33First, space is no longer just about science. It is climate, security, economy and geopolitics
00:39all at the same time.
