On Friday 2 December, the 22 member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) adopted a €10.3 billion budget that should help guarantee the continuity of the European flagship programmes such as Copernicus and Galileo, as well as the Govsatcom development programme.
The final budget decided on is obviously slightly below the €11 billion initially requested by the ESA (see EUROPE 11681) but this is not in any way bad news for Michel Praet, who heads the ESA in Brussels. He explained to us...