The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Council at Ministerial level (CM22) approved, on Wednesday 23 November, a three-year budget of €16.9 billion which includes €642 million for the constellation project.
Despite having an increased budget compared to the 2019 Council (see EUROPE B12379A2), a slight bitterness was palpable in the Twitter commentary of the agency’s Director General, Josef Aschbacher. “We didn’t get exactly what we asked, but we must put it in context”, he said,...