This week in Nations in brief: ESA links up with industry on space safety; Biodiversity agency to be formed in France; Fraunhofer leads push for Clean Sky extension; Green light for laser facility in Romania; Austrian research council demands budget increase.
ESA links up with industry on space safety
An agreement to develop a radar surveillance system to monitor debris in space and prevent satellite collisions has been signed by the European Space Agency and the French aerospace lab ONERA, as part of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness programme. Work on the project, which aims to test techniques for monitoring debris in space, is set to begin this month in France, Spain and Switzerland.
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