Source register

secondary

"Registered users soared from 84,000 to almost 290,000."

Period: 2024 · Scope: CDSE platform

Limitations: Registered stock; not active users.

Reliability: Tier 1 (Copernicus programme service; consortium report).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"289,000 users registered in 2024."

Period: 2024 · Scope: CDSE platform

Limitations: Registered users of one platform, not active users; not a business share.

Reliability: Tier 1 (Copernicus programme service).

Statement located in retrieved text. Context for the denominator only.

primary

"Strong SME involvement: 42% of all entities selected with 18% of total funding to SMEs."

Period: EDF 2023 calls · Scope: European Defence Fund

Limitations: Whole EDF; not space-specific. Participation basis ("entities selected") may differ from 2025 ("participants").

Reliability: Tier 1 (European Commission).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"SMEs are central to this round, making up over 38% of participants and receiving more than 21% of the total funding."

Period: EDF 2025 calls · Scope: European Defence Fund

Limitations: Whole EDF; not space-specific. Lower bounds.

Reliability: Tier 1 (European Commission).

Statement located in retrieved text.

contextual

"While the OSNMA does increase the ability to detect spoofing events, it does not prevent their occurrence. Nor does it protect against jamming."

Period: 2025 · Scope: Galileo (global)

Limitations: Context only.

Reliability: Tier 1 (EUSPA).

Statement located in retrieved text. Supports context only; no KPI value.

contextual

"Forthcoming official launch…on 24 July"; "While OSNMA does not prevent spoofing or jamming, it makes spoofing significantly harder by authenticating the data".

Period: Service launch 24 July 2025 · Scope: Galileo (global)

Limitations: Context for the KPI; does not measure equipment uptake.

Reliability: Tier 1 (EUSPA).

Statement located in retrieved text. Supports context only; no KPI value.

contextual

"GNSS and Earth Observation combined global revenues set to increase from more than EUR 260 billion in 2023 to nearly EUR 590 billion by 2033."

Period: 2023–2033 (projection) · Scope: Global; GNSS + EO

Limitations: Projection; not Copernicus-only, not Europe-only, not a range. Not a KPI value.

Reliability: Tier 1 (EUSPA).

Statement located in retrieved text. Context only.

primary

Arrangements signed "one with Arianespace and ArianeGroup for Ariane 6, and one with Avio for Vega-C"; Avio assumes "additional responsibilities for selling and operating the Vega launch service."

Period: From 14 November 2025 · Scope: Europe

Limitations: Classification of Avio as an independent provider depends on ownership/control definition.

Reliability: Tier 2 (ESA).

Statements located in retrieved text.

primary

"Multi-orbital constellation of at least 348 satellites"; "at least 330 satellites located in low Earth orbit (LEO) and 18 in medium Earth orbit (MEO)"; "With launches starting in 2029 and early services starting to be provided in 2030".

Period: Programme description, 30 October 2026 · Scope: EU IRIS²

Limitations: Zero deployed is inferred from the launch schedule, not stated.

Reliability: Tier 2 (ESA).

Constellation size and schedule located in retrieved text.

primary

"German company Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit with their Spectrum launcher, lifting off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway on 5 September 2026."

Period: 5 September 2026 · Scope: Andøya, Norway

Limitations: Establishes orbital success, not operational readiness.

Reliability: Tier 2 (ESA).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"Arianespace was responsible for commercial exploitation of the launch system until 2026 when Avio started to take over."

Period: Until 2026 · Scope: Europe

Limitations: Undated page.

Reliability: Tier 2 (ESA).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"38.5% of European en-route traffic operates through regions intermittently, but regularly affected by RFI"; "5% of traffic in these regions could, given current RFI levels, need special assistance."

Period: H2 2020 · Scope: European en-route traffic

Limitations: Exposure, not disruption. Based on Airbus detection data. Presentation material. Outdated.

Reliability: Tier 3 (EUROCONTROL).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"Can affect around 38% of European Network Traffic."

Period: 1 January–31 December 2021 · Scope: European network traffic

Limitations: Exposure, not disruption. Approximate. Presentation material. Outdated.

Reliability: Tier 3 (EUROCONTROL).

Statement located in retrieved text.

primary

"Only 69% of the ~€2 billion venture capital raised in the past two years in Europe was secured in rounds led by European investors. Meanwhile, in the US, that figure rises to above 90%."

Period: 2024–2025 · Scope: European and US space ventures

Limitations: Lead-investor basis: full round value attributed to lead investor origin. ESPI tracked dataset.

Reliability: Tier 4 (research institution). Established methodology.

Statement located in retrieved text; supports the KPI as defined on a lead-investor basis.

primary

"Of the 9 European space venture scaleup rounds in 2025, five were led by European public entities"; "all four remaining deals anchored by private investors were led by American investors."

Period: 2025 · Scope: European space ventures, scaleup rounds

Limitations: Applies to ESPI-tracked scaleup rounds only; "growth round" in the brief may be defined differently.

Reliability: Tier 4 (research institution).

Resolves the supplied possible inconsistency: public entities led most European-led rounds.

primary

First Spectrum flight "was terminated at T+30 seconds and fell directly into the sea in controlled manner."

Period: 30 March 2025 · Scope: Andøya, Norway

Limitations: Company disclosure about its own flight.

Reliability: Tier 6 (company disclosure). Reliable for flight outcome.

Statement located in retrieved text. Confirms no orbital success in 2025.