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> ArianeSpace's insistence on not earnestly working to innovate led to them already having had a gap in domestic capability Yes and no, there are plenty of EU
by leeter 2y ago
> ArianeSpace's insistence on not earnestly working to innovate led to them already having had a gap in domestic capability
Yes and no, there are plenty of EU space startups. What Ariane has done is starve them of government funding to build a competitive EU based market. So I'd say it's drawing the investment into a hole.
Just a quick sample of EU space firms I'm aware of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Factory_Augsburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Factory_Augsburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isar_Aerospace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isar_Aerospace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyImpulse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyImpulse
- dotnet00 2y agoYeah that's what I mean, Ariane isn't just standing in for something the market has no solution for, they're actively trying to stifle the solutions the market is working on. By gap in domestic capability I'm referring to how various ESA launches had to be shifted to Falcon 9 due to the retirement of Ariane 5, the delays to Ariane 6 and the already booked manifest for Ariane 6.