ESA’s new chief had served notice well before assuming his post that, to streamline and save money, he wanted a broad reorganization that would slash the number of division directors.

Johann-Dietrich Woerner is finding out that revamping a 22-nation bureaucracy, while not rocket science, is sometimes just as difficult.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.