The threat is operational. European doctrine hasn’t caught up.

Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European space publicly accepted that contested orbit is a 2026 operating condition, not a 2030 scenario. Donati put the doctrine pivot in a single line. Rotteveel put replenishment velocity on the table as the new constellation-design metric. Tillier framed SatCen interoperability as the work of the next two years.

Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/the-threat-is-operational-european-doctrine-hasnt-caught-up/