BREMEN, Germany –  As the 23 member states of the European Space Agency meet this week to decide its budget for the next three years, its three major contributors – Germany, France and Italy – are signaling they will heavily support the agency. Yet even as ESA leaders push for unity, officials from those countries […]

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MILAN — The European Space Agency has tapped a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space Italy to develop its Argonaut lunar lander and has outlined a division of labor for the program across several European firms. Thales Alenia Space Italy will act as the Lunar Design Element (LDE) prime contractor and ensure that all subsystems […]

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