LA PLATA, Maryland — The European Space Agency (ESA) in February will ask its governments for an additional tranche of 250 million euros ($293 million) as part of a year-long process to boost subscriptions to a program preparing a global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) constellation on behalf of the European Commission.
The 23-nation ESA at its Nov. 27 ministerial council received enough funding for what it calls its European Resilience from Space (ERS) Earth Observation Element 1 Phase 1 program — 166.63 million euros — to begin initial work on . . .
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