Aschbacher
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher said Europe needed “a serious debate” on its future plans in space in order to maintain a role as a global leader.

ESA will seek a roughly 25% increase in funding from member states this fall despite economic and geopolitical challenges in Europe.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...