and Spain, especially - to invest in Europe’s space future. Its members were determined - top donors Germany, Luxembourg, France, the U.K. Yet the ESA’s budget was rising: to 731 million euros in 2022, a 17 percent increase over the budget established in 2019. The ESA saw several of its projects delayed, including a much-anticipated mission to Mars. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, collaboration between between the ESA and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency had mostly come to a halt. Guests could look out onto the Eiffel Tower or at the ESA’s astronauts, who sat in the second row of the conference room, wearing blue spacesuits. Representatives from the 22 member states sat at a long table headed by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
Last November, the council of the European Space Agency (ESA) gathered in a conference room on the Champ de Mars, a plush park in Paris’ tony 7th arrondissement.
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