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Actually, Arianespace famously chided spacex for trying to do reusability. So A6 was not intended to be a predecessor at all. Almost no real new major tech. Ch
by glzone1 2y ago
Actually, Arianespace famously chided spacex for trying to do reusability. So A6 was not intended to be a predecessor at all. Almost no real new major tech.
China is doing a much more aggressive fast follow of SpaceX and ESA just recommitted to this Ariane 6 as the future backbone of EU space launch (they have a lot of vested interests on this rocket so chance of going hard on something else were pretty limited to begin with).
This rocket will probably need at least a billion in subsidies every 2-3 years in addition to forcing EU sats to go on it (for 2x the price of alternatives).