ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen speaks on the panel ‘Access to Space: Towards a European Strategy’ alongside Christoph Kautz, Director for Space Policy, Satellite Navigation and Earth Observation, DG DEFIS, European Commission; former ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, Head of the Department of Space and Security, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space, Germany; and Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme Istituto Affari Internazionali; during the first day of the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels.