2012
2012 – German Government Space Budget
The Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany’s national space agency, oversaw an authorized budget of €## million (US$## million) in 2012, excluding contributions made to ESA. This represents an increase of ##% from 2011. In addition to DLR-only spending, Germany made €## million (US$## million) in ESA contributions in 2012. Combined, the DLR authorization and ESA contribution totaled €## billion (US$## billion), representing approximately ##% of Germany’s 2012 budget of €## billion ($## billion).
2012 – French Government Space Budget
France’s space agency, the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), operated on a government budget of approximately €## million (US$## billion) in 2012, excluding contributions made to ESA and EUMETSAT. This represented a ##% increase from the 2011 budget of €## million (US$## billion). In 2012, France contributed €## million (US$## million) to EUMETSAT and €## million (US$## million) to ESA programs, including €## million (US$## million) in program contributions and €## million (US$## million) to pay down outstanding debt to ESA.
2012 – EUMETSAT Space Budget
EUMETSAT, which operates a pan-European system of meteorological satellites, planned a 2012 budget of €## million (US$## million), an increase of ##% from planned 2011 spending. A significant portion of EUMETSAT activities are carried out with ESA. Under the terms of the agreement between the two agencies, ESA is responsible for developing the space segment of EUMETSAT programs and EUMETSAT is responsible for launch procurement, ground segment, and mission operations.
2012 – European Space Agency Budget
ESA operated with a 2012 budget of €## billion (US$## billion), a ##% increase from the 2011 budget of €## billion (US$## billion). As in the prior two years, the largest three ESA funding line items were Earth observation activities at ##%, navigation activities at ##%, and activities related to the Ariane and Vega launch vehicles at ##% of the budget. During 2012, Poland signed a formal Accession Agreement to become ESA’s twentieth member state. Poland’s mandatory contribution as an ESA member will begin to appear in ESA budgets starting in 2013.
2012 – European Commission Space Budget
Civil government spending on space programs and activities in Europe comes from four distinct sources: activities directed by the European Union (EU) and executed by the European Commission (EC), which are mostly implemented by ESA acting as the procurement and development agency; activities by ESA that are funded by ESA member states; activities of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT); and activities carried out by European countries independent of the EU, EUMETSAT, and ESA.
2012 – Chinese Government Space Budget
Responsibility for Chinese space activities is shared by several agencies, including the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which serves as the public civil face of the Chinese space program, and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which operates the country’s overall government space program, including human spaceflight, as well as all Chinese launch facilities. The structure and organization of the Chinese space program are not transparent. This makes obtaining credible data on the Chinese national space enterprise, including budget and organization, difficult.
2012 – Canadian Government Space Budget
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) managed a FY 2012 budget appropriation of C$## million (US$## million). This figure included Canada’s planned C$## million (US$## million) FY 2012 contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA).
2012 – Brazilian Government Space Budget
Brazil’s 2012 Federal Budget authorizes ## million reais (US$## million) in funding for civil space activities. This represents an increase of ##% from the implemented budget for civil space activities in 2011. The Brazilian space agency, Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB), received an authorized funding level of ## million reais (US$## million) in 2012. The Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the AEB’s parent organization, received an additional authorization of ## million reais (US$## million), of which ## million reais (US$## million) was intended to support the joint Brazil-Ukraine Alcântara Cyclone Space launch vehicle development program.
2012 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets
Global military space spending is significant, but difficult to quantify. There are often major differences in how governments identify civil government versus military spending. Also, information on many aspects of military space spending is not publicly available. Despite these challenges, military space spending is estimated for this report using a methodology that combines public data with estimates for areas where data is not available. For example, total U.S. military space spending in fiscal year 2012 is calculated by applying the growth in identifiable DoD unclassified military space programs to the FY 2011 total DoD space spending figure. The 2011 figure is based on public statements made by top DoD space officials.
2012 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets
NASA’s FY 2012 budget, provided as a Congressional appropriation through Public Law 112-55, The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, represented a ##% decrease from the agency’s FY 2011 enacted budget of $## billion.