Building the European Space Ecosystem
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Claims: a European capsule company raises about $70M and plans a re-entry demonstrator this year and a customer-carrying recoverable craft next year; a Bulgarian cube-sat systems firm bootsrapped from €25,000 to profitability, has put thousands of subsystems in orbit and serves 240 customers worldwide; one firm reports ~€65M raised mostly from VCs and zero government funding; panelists stress competition, US market entry and European sovereignty as drivers for launches, contracts and manufacturing.
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