波兰卫星制造商克雷奥泰克仪器公司（Creotech Instruments）首席执行官格热戈日·布罗纳（Grzegorz Brona）于周五表示，该公司计划到2029年将其产能提升最多十倍，同时警告称，未来几年欧洲仍将依赖美国火箭将其卫星送入轨道。
Polish satellite maker Creotech Instruments (CRI1.WA) plans to raise its production capacity by up to tenfold by 2029, CEO Grzegorz Brona said on Friday, while warning Europe would remain reliant on US rockets to put its satellites into orbit for years.
布罗纳在索波特接受路透社采访两天前，乌克兰曾表示太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）已限制其使用星盾（Starshield）——即星链（Starlink）卫星网络的军用版本。欧洲星讯公司（Eutelsat）被广泛视为欧洲对星链的主要挑战者，其股价于周三飙升23%，全周收盘上涨28%。
Brona spoke with Reuters in Sopot two days after Ukraine said SpaceX (SPCX.O) had curbed its use of Starshield, the military-grade version of the Starlink satellite network. Shares of Eutelsat (ETL.PA), widely seen as Europe's leading challenger to Starlink, jumped 23% on Wednesday and closed the week 28% higher.
当被问及欧洲工业界是否能打造出星链的替代品时，布罗纳表示，欧洲大陆可以生产数千颗卫星，却仍然面临无人将其发射的困境。
Asked whether European industry could build an alternative to Starlink, Brona said the continent could produce thousands of satellites and still have no one to launch them.
他表示：“运载火箭现在正成为（美国总统）唐纳德·特朗普政府手中对欧盟施加政治压力的工具。”
"Launch vehicles are now becoming a means of political pressure on the European Union in the hands of (US President) Donald Trump's administration," he said.
根据欧洲空间局的数据，去年全球共进行了324次轨道发射，欧洲占了8次，而美国则进行了193次。仅星链就占了在轨卫星总数的60%以上。
Europe carried out 8 of the world's 324 orbital launches last year, against 193 by the US. Starlink alone accounted for more than 60% of active satellites, according to European Space Agency data.
不制造火箭的克雷奥泰克在其卫星中排除了美国技术，以避免美国的武器出口规则。根据该规则，华盛顿可以阻止销售哪怕包含一小部分美国零部件的卫星。
Creotech, which does not build rockets, has kept US technology out of its satellites to avoid US arms export rules, under which Washington can block sales of a satellite containing even a small American part.
然而，它仍然依赖美国火箭。太空探索技术公司将克雷奥泰克为波兰“微型全球”（MikroGlob）军事计划建造的所有四颗卫星送入了轨道。
Yet it still relies on US rockets. SpaceX carried all four satellites Creotech built for Poland's MikroGlob military programme into orbit.
布罗纳指出，包括德国运载火箭在内的新欧洲火箭计划表明“欧洲当然正在觉醒”，但他补充说，建造足够数量的火箭可能需要十年时间。
"Of course, Europe is waking up," Brona said, pointing to new European rocket programmes including a German launcher, but added that building enough rockets would probably take a decade.
他另行表示，欧盟多个大型卫星星座——即协同运作的航天器机群——的项目已经在推进中，克雷奥泰克旨在参与这些项目的投标。
Separately, he said programmes for several large EU satellite constellations — fleets of spacecraft working as one system — were already under way, and that Creotech aimed to bid in their tenders.
这家卫星制造商计划于2029年开设一家新工厂，该厂每年能够制造40颗混合类型的卫星，或者多达100颗单一型号的卫星，而其现有工厂的年产量约为10颗。
The satellite maker plans to open a factory in 2029 able to make 40 satellites a year of mixed types, or up to 100 of one model, compared with about 10 at its current plant.
布罗纳补充说，克雷奥泰克将在未来几周内开始在法国和德国开设子公司，并力争在2032年之前制造出500公斤级的卫星。
Brona added Creotech would start opening subsidiaries in France and Germany in the coming weeks and was aiming to build 500-kg satellites by 2032.
布罗纳表示，明年的收入已经有了保障，该公司可能会在半年内签署更多合同。
Revenue for next year is secured, and the company will probably sign several more contracts within six months, Brona said.