This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Europe's future in space. Space has become a strategic domain of critical importance - not only for economic growth, but also for security and defence. To meet this urgent challenge, leading voices from politics, business, and science have contributed to this volume and outlined concrete measures - both immediate and strategic - that Europe must take to defend its security and interests in space. Forward bei Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space. Authors: Dr. Josef Aschbacher, Director General European Space Agency (ESA); Dr. Balasz Bartoki-Gönczy, Vice Dean of the University of Public Administration, Budapest; Dr. Bohumil Dobos, Associate Professor Charles University Prague; Andreas Dripke, Executive Chairman Diplomatic Council; Dr. Enrico Fels, Managing Director CASSIS, University Bonn; Dr. Namrata Goswami, Professor for Space Security, John Hopkins University; Minister of State Florian Hahn, Federal Foreign Office, Member of the German Bundestag; Prof. Dr. Mahulena Hofmann, SES Chair in Space, SatCom and Media Law, University of Luxembourg; Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft, Ambassador (ret.) President Diplomatic Council, Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy of the German Foreign Office; Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space; Dr. Ciro Maddaloni, Ministry for Innovation and Technologies (ret.); Hang Nguyen, Publisher Diplomatic Council; Dr. habil Antje Nötzold, Private Lecturer and Research Associate, Chemnitz University of Technology & University of the Federal Armed Forces; Almudena Azcarate Ortega, Lead Space Security Researcher & WMD Programmes, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; Dr. Xavier Pasco, Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, Paris; Clemence Poirier, Senior Researcher at ETH Zürich; Dr. Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Lt.-Gen. (ret.), First Romanian in Space, former President of the Romanian Space Agency, full member of the International Academy of Astronautics; Juan Carlos Cortes Pulido, Director General of the Spanish Space Agency; Jochen M. Richter, Chairman Diplomatic Council Global Security Forum; Rabea Rogge, German Astronaut and Keynote Speaker, Expert in Robotics and Spaceflight, First German Woman in Space; Andrea Rotter, Head of Division Foreign and Security Policy, Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS); Juliana Suess, Researcher, Security Policy Group, Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order Project, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); Matthias Wachter, Managing Director NewSpace Initiative, BDI Head of Department International Cooperation, Security, Raw Materials, Space.