The outcome should contribute to:
- Pave the way to future European on-orbit operations and services able to deal also with security and defence satellites.
- Enhance the ability of the armed forces of the EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries to conduct operations and act in space, enabling responsive space capabilities.
- Optimising investment by leveraging synergies with past, ongoing and future EU civilian R&I in the field of in-space operations and services.
Given the evolving threat environment in Space, Defence users are likely to require tailored assets to conduct space-to-space operations in support of Space Domain Awareness, to protect and ensure the uninterrupted services of space systems used for defence applications, in particular to inspect, repair, update, maintain or deorbit military satellites. Although the European defence community recognises the strategic need for such capabilities in the medium term, no operational assets are currently available in the EU Member States' and EDF Associated Countries' armed forces to carry out such missions.
Building upon or integrating results from relevant civilian EU-funded actions, the EDF intends to remedy to this shortfall by addressing R&D actions paving the way to future capabilities for on-orbit operations and services for defence applications.
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