At the first meeting of the steering group on Thursday 9 February, Internal Market and Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska met representatives of the major space industries, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the head of the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) to assess the situation with regard to the malfunction of some atomic clocks affecting a number of satellites in the Galileo programme.
In January, ESA Director General Jan Wörner told...