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Nature 431, 888 (21 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431888b; Published online 20 October 2004
Germany balks at funding ESA's planetary ambitions
Alison Abbott
Aurora, the European Space Agency's planetary exploration programme, may find itself in difficulties as France and Germany proved reluctant to support it last week.Representatives of the agency's member states, meeting in Paris, heard that it had obtained commitments of between 
25 million (US$31 million) and 30 million.
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