
Europe’s new space budget to enable CO2 mapping
Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe.They will be developed out of a new European Space Agency (Esa) budget agreed in Seville, Spain.Research ministers on Thursday approved a package of proposals worth some €14.4bn (£12.3bn/$ 15.9bn) over the next five years.As well as the new CO2 monitoring system, the funds will also pave the way for missions to the Moon and Mars. Media playback is unsupported on your device "You're looking at a very happy DG," said Jan Worner, the director general of Esa, after getting pretty much everything he wanted from the "Space19+" Ministerial Council. "It always looks so simple. But it took