With the advent of the so-called New Space Age, promoted by private actors and driven by market logic innovation, the European space sector meets significant challenges over recent years. This article explores the implications of New Space’s emergence for contemporary societies that increasingly rely on space technologies as critical infrastructures. It does so by analyzing conflicting logics of innovation within the sector arising from a clash of Old Space and New Space cultures and associated role identities. To this end, it combines concepts of institutional culture and role identity from science and technology studies and organization studies. Tracing the identity work performed by members of the European space sector through qualitative interviews, it concludes that new demands of market logic innovation are negotiated within a mode of switching between different sector cultures. It concludes that this mode provides opportunities for the responsible future governance of critical space infrastructures.

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在不同的世界之间切换：通过创新协商欧洲航天部门的文化

随着由私营部门推动和市场逻辑创新驱动的所谓新太空时代的到来，欧洲航天部门近年来面临着重大挑战。本文探讨了新空间的出现对日益依赖空间技术作为关键基础设施的当代社会的影响。它通过分析由旧空间和新空间文化以及相关角色身份的冲突引起的行业内的创新逻辑冲突来实现这一点。为此，它结合了来自科技研究和组织研究的制度文化和角色认同的概念。通过定性访谈追踪欧洲航天部门成员所做的身份工作，得出的结论是，市场逻辑创新的新需求是在不同行业文化之间切换的模式下协商出来的。它的结论是，这种模式为关键空间基础设施的负责任的未来治理提供了机会。