ESA still optimistic about Nov 26-27 ministerial. Italy’s promised boost helps a lot, Canada’s too; France, Germany TBD

by Peter B. de Selding

WASHINGTON — European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Josef Ascbacher has maintained his goal of collecting 22 billion euros ($25.3 billion) in the final days before the agency’s Nov. 26-27 ministerial conference, scheduled in Bremen, Germany.

That would be a remarkable 30% increase over the 16.9 billion euros committed at the last ministerial in November 2022, which was a 17% boost over the subscriptions registered at the 2019 conference.

A few months ago, Aschacher stopped referring to a 23-billion-euro goal, moving the . . .

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