Europe has ships. SmallSat Europe said it doesn’t have ports.

Stefano Antonetti at D-Orbit told the conference Europe has ships but no ports. The metaphor surfaced in five other Day 3 venues — Jarvis at Kepler, Mignolo at ESA, Willems at ST Engineering iDirect, Angellotti at EUSPA, Alam on the resilience panel. The category shifted from satellite to infrastructure layer.

Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/29/europe-has-ships-smallsat-europe-said-it-doesnt-have-ports/