Operating Cost Cuts Help CNES to Triple Spending on Research, Flight Demos

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The French space agency, CNES, has tripled its investment in research and technology projects and flight demonstrators in the past seven years in part by reinvesting savings from cutting CNES's overall operating costs, CNES President Yannick d'Escatha said Feb. 4. In 2013, the agency expects to spend nearly 18 percent of its total budget, not including spending at the European Space Agency, on developing new technologies and flying demonstration payloads.