PARIS — The European Space Agency’s 2020 budget represents a 16.8% increase over 2019 following larger commitments from its 22 member states and major outside partners including the European Commission and Eumetsat, and a final past-due payment by France.
ESA’s budget for 2020 of 6.68 billion euros ($7.5 billion) takes only partial account of the agency’s November conference of its governments, which collected 14.5 billion euros to be spent over five years.
ESA’s earlier total for the conference of . . .
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