Ten billion Euros! That’s 12.9 billion dollars! It’s also how much the European Space Agency and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson have decided to spend on a new space budget. Some of the money is going toward things like funding Galileo, the European GPS service, and a feasibility study for a returnable spacecraft. But the most intriguing plan to emerge from the Agency’s two day conference is the agreement to build a research center at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
One of the center’s main objectives will be to develop space robots. ExoMars is such a bot–it will be designed to search for life on mars. Space robots and discovering aliens all in the same project? Simply out of this world.

[BBC] VIA [The Register]

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