ESA to scrap Eddington, scale back BepiColombo

Faced with a grim budget outlook, the European Space Agency (ESA) has canceled its Eddington planet-finding mission and cut the lander from the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. ESA's committee on science programs met Nov. 5 and 6 and faced with a tight budget, and "an outlook with no budget increase...

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