UPDATE Dec. 3: This story was updated to reflect ccmments by ESA Director-General Josef Aschbacher.
LA PLATA, Maryland — The 22-nation European Space Agency (ESA) will loosen its geographic-return requirements by allowing industrial primes to build their best teams without regard for which ESA nation they’re from, with the idea that the subcontractor lineup could be reworked if needed later on.
The new policy, called fair return, is scheduled to be tried out as part of ESA’s European Launcher Challenge and has already . . .
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