Europe’s 10bn euro space vision
Posted by enrictesano on January 2, 2009
To that end, the minister wants it to become less of a scientific or industrial “club”, and to become more focussed on the services it delivers to taxpayers.
Important programmes to receive investment from France at the meeting in The Hague will include the environmental monitoring initiative known as GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) which aims to build a full picture of the state of the planet from satellite and ground-based data.
As well as being a lead nation in Esa, France currently holds the presidency of the European Union; and over the past few months Mrs Pecresse has attempted to steer both organisations on to a similar track.
But, in the end I think, what is important is Esa working for the European Union, in which the member states have a political vision of what is the use of space for European citizens; and the use of space for European citizens is how space applications improve our daily lives.”
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7747297.stm
