SPACE:
Revised Space Science Program Brightens ESA's Horizon
Helen Gavaghan
Facing a budget freeze, ESA's science directorate has come up with a revised version of its 10-year science strategy, which reduces the cost of some missions so that the entire launch schedule can go forward. It even leaves room for some welcome additions, including a European role in the Next Generation Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble, and a series of NASA-style "smaller, faster, cheaper" missions.