L'ESA va se voir conrainte par L'Italie et la France de réduire son soutien à l'ISS concernant le laboratoire Colombus.
Comment dans ces conditions faire une vraie politique spatiale?! Toujours le même problème avec ces pays qui refusent de donner un vrai budget à l'Europe (et donc à l'Europe spatiale). Bref, si je comprends bien c'est le repli national pour ne pas dire nationaliste, tellement en vogue aujourd'hui, et qui s'appuie sur l'idée que l'Europe serait responsable de tous les maux. Merci les anti-européens de tous poils!
Comment dans ces conditions faire une vraie politique spatiale?! Toujours le même problème avec ces pays qui refusent de donner un vrai budget à l'Europe (et donc à l'Europe spatiale). Bref, si je comprends bien c'est le repli national pour ne pas dire nationaliste, tellement en vogue aujourd'hui, et qui s'appuie sur l'idée que l'Europe serait responsable de tous les maux. Merci les anti-européens de tous poils!
1/6/2014 ESA declares that it intends to reduce the cost of the ISS by 30 percent
The European Space Agency (ESA) said that at the latest by the end of 2015 it is going to reduce the annual cost of maintaining the ISS by 30% in comparison with 2010, according to AstroNews. However, the agency refused to provide information on what is going to save it and what might be the consequences of the savings in terms of Scientific and Industrial Research at the station.
Just agency rejected a proposal to confirm or deny the figures that were presented one of the main partners of the space station, Airbus Defence and Space, on the value of transactions station in 2014.
ESA is under pressure representations of individual countries that are part of it, especially in Italy and France: they require to reduce the cost of managing laboratory module Columbus. Ten of the twenty members of ESA support the work station, but France and Italy declare that they are no longer able to devote the same amount of money.
51% of the maintenance costs of the Columbus module covers the ESA, the remaining 49% controlling the U.S. space agency NASA. Every year, Europe is obliged to pay NASA, mostly in services, and not in terms of money, about 150 million euros (200 million dollars).
Raina Bart (Bart Reijnen), head of orbital systems and space exploration company Airbus Defence and Space, said that the team "will be able to achieve the goal - to reduce the cost by 30% - in 2014 and not in 2016 as originally planned. We have made significant efforts to reduce costs at the same time adhering to the same high level of service. "
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