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> The only reason the launch market seems to be easy to compete in is because the US launch market has historically been a prime example of corruption. That is
by nickik 9y ago
> The only reason the launch market seems to be easy to compete in is because the US launch market has historically been a prime example of corruption.
That is mostly false. Almost all government have historically given precidents to individual companies. The US for a long time actually had more competition then Europe and it is already more competitive now.
Europe has Arianespace and it has a monopoly and gets massive amount of public funding. That is actually more corrupt compared to the US.
The reality is that SpaceX could never have existed in Europe. If Musk was from France, he would be some guy with a few good ideas somewhere deep inside of ESA or Arianespace.
- wallace_f 9y agoI read this as 'US launch market is not corrupt because EU's is more corrupt.' Maybe the US launch market was still corrupt, even if worse exists.
- nickik 9y agoOf course it was corrupt, as I pointed out. All nations had the same basic policy outlook on this. But only in the US you could have SpaceX. In Europe, Russia, China, India there simply couldn't be such company at the moment.