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Belgian Space Policy

Since the 1960s Belgium has been involved in European space policy. The country opted straight away to pursue its space efforts within a European and international framework in order to optimise its financial investment:

Belgium played a major role in the creation of the European Space Agency (ESA) which was decided during the European Ministerial Space Conference in Brussels in 1973
It has also entered into bilateral cooperation in the space field: with France (for the Earth observation programme SPOT), with Russia in MIRAS and SPICAM and with Argentina
For Earth observation, different research programmes support the scientific exploitation of the satellite-data. .

Objectives
The exploitation of space comprises four main aspects: scientific, public, industrial and commercial.
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An ever-changing context
The international context in which the above-mentioned major European programmes were decided upon in the seventies and eighties changed radically at the beginning of the nineties due to various factors.
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