Europe is stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch costs & rocket reuse

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clickety_clack•4 minutes ago

What is Europe’s space industry like? Is it either too small to build this stuff, or is it too big to pivot out of what they’re already doing?

Edit: or are they all “policy experts” writing white papers about what sombody else should be doing.

bell-cot•about 4 hours ago

HN title is a mix of the article's title & subtitle, with a dash of the (linked) research paper which it's about.

testing22321•about 1 hour ago

This disparity is going to expand dramatically when starship starts launching actual missions with some kind of regularity.

That any space faring nation is not working on reusable vehicles a decade after SpaceX proved it possible feels as head in the sand as V8 engines instead of electric.

mft_•about 1 hour ago

Yup. Falcon 9 first succeeded at landing over ten years ago. What on earth have the (presumably) smart people at Arianespace been doing over that time?

testing22321•about 1 hour ago

Saying reuse is silly

https://europeanspaceflight.com/arianegroup-ceo-reusable-ari...

Europe is stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch costs & rocket reuse

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