The arch senior manager of a of Germany's heading space companies has mislaid his work since the Wikileaks saga.
OHB-System's Berry Smutny was reported in a line to have told US diplomats that Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation plan was a "stupid idea".
Bremen-based OHB-System is segment of the consortium that will erect Galileo's initial 14 functional spacecraft.
Although Mr Smutny has denied the cable's contents, OHB's house has motionless to eliminate him from his post.
A matter from the firm on Monday mentioned its supervisory house had "passed a unanimous fortitude to devaluate Mr Smutny's appointment", adding that it "disapproves these conversations and the quotes attributed to Mr Smutny".
Berry Smutny was purported to have told diplomats at a discussion in Berlin in October 2009 that Galileo, a flagship space programme of the EU, was a waste products of taxpayers' money.
The cable, that was published by the Norwegian every day Aftenposten final Thursday , quoted the OHB-System arch as saying, "I regard Galileo is a dim-witted thought that essentially serves French interests", and, in particular, French army interests.
Mr Smutny was serve reported to say that Galileo was "doomed for failure" or would "have to bear extreme scalebacks for survival".
When approached by Aftenposten to criticism on the cable, the senior manager conceded he had met US officials but deserted the belief that he had done any such remarks, adding that he was a member of Europe's draft sat-nav system.
Galileo is a mutil-billion-euro venture that will element - but moreover vie with - the US Global Positioning System (GPS), providing really precise timing and place information that may be used in a horde of applications from alighting planes to co-ordinating financial transactions. The attempt is argumentative because its deployment is long late and significantly over-budget.
OHB-System and UK-based firm Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) were awarded a stipulate valued at 566m euros (465m) in January 2010 to beginning the prolongation of the Galileo constellation.
Surrey will arrange the electronic cargo for any heavenly body in Guildford before shipping it to Germany to be incorporated in the booster bus, or chassis, ready by OHB.
The consortium's stipulate win was a fantastic success is to two firms that beat off the amalgamated bid of Europe's two greatest heavenly body manufacturers, EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space (TAS).
OHB-System then followed this triumph by winning the other high-profile European satellite-manufacturing treat of 2010 - the 1.3bn-euro stipulate to create the next era of continue satellites is to continent. In this case, the stipulate is common with TAS.
The matter from the OHB-System supervisory house mentioned Mr Smutny had to be private from his position to be able to prevent any serve damage to the firm on the segment of customers, diplomatic representatives and the open at large.
It thanked the sociable arch is to work that he had achieved over the past 18 months, "particularly stressing the fact that final year had been the many successful in the company's history".
Marco Fuchs, who is now the CEO of the primogenitor firm OHB Technology, will be presumption the position of CEO of OHB-System.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk
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