A multiyear space-program budget agreed to by European governments in 2008, which was already feeling the strains of government spending restrictions in late 2009, is likely to be further stressed in the coming months, European government officials say.rnAs government debt loads have taken center stage from the financial and economic crisis, the question is whether the 18 nations of the European Space Agency (ESA) can maintain the spending level they committed to at their November 2008 ministerial conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
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