Government authorities responsible for Britain’s space budget have defended their spending on space science missions as generally within budget and scientifically worthwhile, but agreed they may have overestimated the financial returns to British industry from Europe’s Galileo satellite-navigation system.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.