ESA’s first Global Space Economic Forum was held at ESA's ESTEC technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 10 October 2018.
Reija Viinanen, Director at the Finnish Transport Agency, opened the discussion presenting the Aurora Project. The project aims at facilitating and enabling connected and automated driving development and cross-border testing in all weather conditions.
After the presentation, the two ESA Directors P. Verhoef and D. Parker addressed the following themes: the impact of navigation on non-space business, innovation in satellite navigation integrating other PNT technologies, key space and non-space technologies in the space exploration roadmap.