“The two-year investment plan will cover innovations related to carrier rockets, speed up our projects and allow us to go faster in global competition,”said Macron…reports Asian Lite News
France will invest 500 million euros ($609.5 million) in boosting innovation in the space industry in an attempt to battle outgrowing US and Asian competition, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
During his visit to ArianeGroup aerospace company in Vernon in northern France on Tuesday, Macron said the two-year investment plan “will cover innovations related to carrier rockets, speed up our projects and allow us to go faster in global competition,” Xinhua news agency reported.
La France croit au spatial !
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 12, 2021
500 millions d'euros du plan France Relance seront consacrés à l'accélération du développement de propulsions à hydrogène et projets spatiaux. pic.twitter.com/Pg6FAah93d
He said that 30 million euros will be invested in the development of new rocket engine and hydrogen propulsion technologies, stressing that “France must remain a country of innovation and production where there is a future for space.”
“This is the area that has seen growing American and Asian competition in recent years. … That is why we need to organise ourselves, reduce undue intra-European competition, continue European investment and innovate more,” he said.
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