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# ECIPE paper says Europe's space policy still favours legacy champions
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-04-16-ecipe-eu-space-strategy-legacy-champions/
- Published: 2026-04-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:36.000Z
- Description: ECIPE authors Andrea Dugo and Dyuti Pandya write Europe made 8 orbital launches in 2025 against the US's 181, its space patent share fell from 11 percent in 2000 to 6 percent in 2023, and EU space startups average USD 48 million funding against USD 317 million in the US.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [ECIPE occasional paper, 16 April 2026](https://ecipe.org/publications/europes-space-strategy-for-21st-century/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This paper does not itself commit funding or change any EU space programme; it is the authors' own assessment.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. No move: ECIPE opinion on EU-wide space sector gap; binding 1, scale 3.. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)