ESA To Hear Proposal To Finance Life-Extending Space Tug

摘要

A European industrial team is expect-to present a proposal this summer to the European Space Agency (ESA) to co-finance development of a space tug to provide life-extending fuel to telecommunications spacecraft in orbit. After three years of development work partially funded through ESA's Artes telecommunications research program, Dutch Space and its ConeXpress Orbital Life Extension partners would appear to be facing a make-or-break year in 2006.