PARIS — The French space agency, CNES, has tripled its investment in research and technology projects and flight demonstrators in the past seven years in part by reinvesting savings from cutting CNES’s overall operating costs, CNES President Yannick d’Escatha said Feb. 4.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.