Europe is strengthening its sovereign space capabilities, but its path to becoming a true space power will depend on balancing greater autonomy with multinational cooperation and overcoming political, industrial and operational constraints.
AI is emerging as a critical tool for more resilient space operations, helping operators manage growing constellations, detect cyber threats, avoid collisions, predict failures and enable greater spacecraft autonomy.
Satellogic’s Luciano Giesso explains why the future of Earth observation will be defined by faster revisit rates, trusted commercial data, sovereign control and AI-driven autonomous sensing.
The ground segment is rapidly shifting toward software-defined, cloud-enabled and automated systems that give satellite operators greater scalability, flexibility and efficiency as missions expand from large constellations to the Moon.
Jesús Bernal Allende joins Constellations to explore how existing space law is being applied as autonomous systems take on a larger share of spacecraft decision making.
Luciano Giesso of Satellogic joins Constellations to break down how Earth observation is rapidly shifting as users demand quicker, more dependable data that can keep pace with real-time decisions.
Live from the show floor of Smallsat, Constellations is joined by Jonas Åslund and Viktor Pankov of SSC Space, who dive into one of the most important shifts happening across the sector: the emergence of a new space infrastructure built on global ground networks.
A new joint working group will refine use cases, public-private partnerships, and interoperability with Germany’s SatcomBw-4. Launch timelines still hinge on Ariane 6 capacity, with both constellations targeting deployments from 2029.
As AI pushes terrestrial data centers toward their power and capacity limits, researchers and industry leaders are exploring orbital data centers as a potential long-term solution for scalable, resilient computing despite significant technical and economic hurdles.
