ESA's stopgap, new-start budget

From: Interavia | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Brussels: Versatile Ariane 5 stage, light launcher, SatNav and Earth observation programmes get limited initial funding

The European Space Agency has just concluded a Council Meeting in Brussels that should have been attended by the space ministers of member states, but wasn't. Instead, states were represented by the regular permanent delegates who attend normal Council meetings at ESA'S Paris headquarters. The reason why the ministers stayed away was, fundamentally, that there was not sufficient agreement among national delegations as to the directions that the agency should be taking over ...

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