What is needed to establish a European Space Agency center? | Simonetta Chieli

Poland and the European Space Agency (ESA) are in talks about establishing one of the agency’s centers in Poland. What are the criteria of eligibility for a location to host such a center?

“You need to provide the land, you need to provide (...) the surrounding elements of hosting a center, which means (...) near an airport, next to international schools, because ESA has an international community, and you need to make it attractive for a variety of nationalities of ESA member states to come and work at the place,” Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency, told TVP World on the sidelines of the 2026 Berlin Air Show.

Join TVP World’s Sonja Agata Bišćan and her guest, as they discuss ESA’s plans for new centers in Poland and Norway, the role played by the agency in space exploration and beyond, and how the war in Ukraine led it to the faster development of space-related security priorities.

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