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Space Café WebTalk Recap: Jean-Jacques Dordain on European Space Innovation

Photo courtesy of Jean-Jacques Dordain

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Former Director General of the European Space Agency talked about space innovation in Europe.

Jean-Jacques Dordain is to date the longest serving Director General at ESA . Jean-Jacques Dordain has a great experience in the functioning of Europe’s space sector and is now working to ensure that youth, innovation and new space find their place in Europe. He shared his passion for space and the planet because for him, we are all members of the crew of planet Earth.

Jean-Jacques Dordain will be moderating the next Space Forum in Luxembourg on 15 and 16 September, a good time to take stock of the post-covid situation in the space sector.

He also answered relevant questions from the audience.

This Space Cafè WebTalk, held on 1 September 2020, was hosted by Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. The Space Cafè WebTalk series is SpaceWatch.Global’s innovative webinar platform featuring global space experts.

The complete video can be seen here:

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