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The only opportunity would be for individual countries (like Germany) to fund such rockets alone, but that seems unlikely due to cost (and the fact that they al
by snowpid 2y ago
The only opportunity would be for individual countries (like Germany) to fund such rockets alone, but that seems unlikely due to cost (and the fact that they already pay for ESA).
Germany does it in its national program.
https://www.dlr.de/de/ar/themen-missionen/raumfahrttechnologien/traegersysteme/dlr-mikrolauncher-und-nutzlast-wettbewerb https://www.dlr.de/de/ar/themen-missionen/raumfahrttechnolog...
- cubefox 2y agoThat's just for small launchers and the funding is only 25 million in total (to be divided by several companies) which is orders of magnitude lower than would be required for a partly reusable Ariane 6 replacement.
- snowpid 2y agostart small and start a competition. Then afterwards you get more and more competent companies.