French president urges faster military space development, promises funding; CNES space agency confronts budget challenges

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — French President Emmanuel Macron promised to find supplemental funding to ensure development of the French-German missile-defense system, whose first element is geostationary-orbit satellites launched by each nation.

The program, called Joint Early Warning for a European Lookout (JEWEL), was approved by the two nations’ defense ministries in October. JEWEL is a component of a future European program called Odin’s Eye.

The German Defense Ministry’s September announcement of a five-year, 35-billion-euro ($41 billion . . .

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