#Ariane "#Europe 🇪🇺 needs to decide to schedule #Ariane 6's #retirement before its #maiden #flight,” https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arianespace-rocket-space-race
📆 October 25, 2022 #Ariane boss insists #Europe’s 🇪🇺 new #rocket 🚀 can #compete with Musk’s #SpaceX 🤦♂️ He wants the Continent's #space #ministers to back plans 💰 to develop technologies that would make up Ariane 7. https://www.politico.eu/article/ariane-boss-insists-europee-new-rocket-can-compete-with-elon-musks-spacex
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How should #ESA 🇪🇺 proceed with #Ariane ?
“The real question is about finding the appropriate answer to foreign competition, meaning that #Europe needs to decide to schedule #Ariane 6's retirement before its maiden flight” https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arianespace-rocket-space-race/
Which reason got the 45% which voted for #ArianeSpace to believe they would do better in the future than with #Ariane 6 ?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whistle_in_the_dark
#ESA #SpaceCompany #LaunchCost
🇪🇺 #European taxpayers are subsidizing every launch of satellites for Jeff #Bezos by roughly $75 million.
#ArianeGroup is asking for a substantial increase 📈 to 350 million euros 💰 a year. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/oops-it-looks-like-the-ariane-6-rocket-may-not-offer-europe-any-launch-savings
🇫🇷 #ArianeSpace "Perhaps the company hadn't realised the reality of the situation. In the new, highly #competitive space environment, technical strengths are no longer enough; we have to be highly responsive. So my job is to drive the transformation towards greater #agility and improved #operational performance." https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2023/12/08/martin-sion-president-executif-d-arianegroup-la-montee-en-cadence-d-ariane-6-est-vitale-pour-l-europe-spatiale_6204528_3234.html
@spaceflight Well I'd say those are part of technical strengths.
Ariane was lacking in technical strengths related to agility and operational performance.
Seems like we should call that what it is.
