Europe’s Herschel-Planck science mission, the most expensive and complicated satellite program ever undertaken in Europe, is more than 20 percent over budget and months behind schedule because of instrument development delays, government-imposed work-distribution rules and the inability of European laboratories to produce hardware as promised, according to government and industry officials.
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