There is no race between Germany and France over their respective contributions to the European Space Agency (ESA) budget for the next three years. This budget is on the agenda for a meeting of space ministers from ESA’s 22 member states in Paris this Tuesday and Wednesday. “That would be absolute nonsense. The ESA budget is not a speed race between our countries.”exclaim in chorus Walter Pelzer, Director General of the German Space Agency (DLR) and Philippe Baptiste, President of the National Center for Space Research (Cnes).
in an exclusive interview with Figaro and to Die WeltThe two leaders want to remove all doubts, while at the previous meeting of space ministers in 2019, the German contribution (€3.29 billion over three years) replaced the French (2.6 billion) for the first time.
However, the two countries do not have the same strategy. More than 50% of Germany’s space budget (1.5 billion per year)…
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Source: Le Figaro
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