LA PLATA, Maryland — The science program of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been given the short end of the budget stick for well over a decade.
ESA’s Science Directorate is trying to reverse the trend to win a budget increase at the agency’s ministerial conference in November, where multi-year budget and spending priorities will be set.
Here’s the background:
In the five years ending in 2014, the science program received some 11.8% of the . . .
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