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White House Interventions Spark Transatlantic Space Tensions
Major US commercial space companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud, have withdrawn from the European Space Summit in Paris, following White House interventions over EU regulatory frameworks. The diplomatic impasse centers on the European Union’s draft EU Space Act and European Commission initiatives, which US trade officials argue would impose operational restrictions on non-European commercial satellite constellations. The withdrawal underscores growing competition between transatlantic space architectures, as reported by SatNews.