Ministers from the 22 ESA member states and Canada will gather in Lucerne, Switzerland on 1-2 December to discuss future spending priorities for the ESA space programme.

Before the meeting, each ESA directorate has drawn-up a list of priorities to be considered by ministers. In this report, we hear from ESA’s Science Directorate – part of the Agency’s mandatory programme, which all member states sign up to – on its proposals for the future.

This story includes an interview with Alvaro Giménez Cañete, Director Science, ESA in English (A-Roll) and in Spansih and  English (B-Roll)