2004/03/22

Danish Space Policy
This internet document dates to 1997. I imagine it's still current only because it's still listed with Yahoo, but you never know. As we've found out stuff from 1991 is still up on behalf of Australia's defunct space Policy. What's really cool about the Danes having a Space Policy so readily available on-line is that it gives us an opportunity to the level of thinking governments can have in the absence of NASA.
There's a link to Space policy for Space Industry and Business which has a list of recommendations:

-> The international competitiveness of the Danish space industry must be improved through specialization and continued technological development. Among other things, Danish companies should continue to act as suppliers to ESA-programmes
-> The Danish space industry should prioritize projects which ensure continuity and a stable market for their products in the long term. This can be achieved, for example, by participating in operational space activities and by competing in the open market
-> Danish participation in ESA technology programmes should be prioritized in accordance with the focus of Danish R&D and product development. This participation should also encourage company specialization and bring new companies into the arena
A continued, balanced industrial participation in ESA- programmes should be ensured by Danish companies which supply equipment as well as software and services
-> The dependency of individual companies on ESA-orders should be reduced. Revenue gained from ESA should only constitute a limited part of the total company turnover.

And there you have it. A Plan. Not much detail there, but you can see they've got some stuff they want to achieve.

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