SYDNEY — The European Space Agency (ESA) and the EU Commission have been forced to substantially lower their ambitions for ESA’s initial investment in an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) constellation for defense/security use as they confront the project’s complexities and the tyranny of the ESA calendar.
Pushed by EU Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, ESA since this spring has been rounding up support for what it had hoped could be a billion-euro ($1.7 billion) radar and optical constellation that could be . . .
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