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Europe is dependent on non-European suppliers in many areas of space technology. The most prominent examples can be found in the field of radiation-hard electronic components, but this is also the case in many other areas such as composite fibres, space environment simulation models, etc.
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Tortora, JJ. (2015). European Autonomy in Space: The Technological Dependence. In: Al-Ekabi, C. (eds) European Autonomy in Space. Studies in Space Policy, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11110-0_11
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