> it's reasonable to discount EU as stagnated In this case it is. It peaked in the 1990s with resurgency after Ariane 5 came out but it hasn't been competitiv

> it's reasonable to discount EU as stagnated In this case it is. It peaked in the 1990s with resurgency after Ariane 5 came out but it hasn't been competitive for many years now. Arianespace was kind of the SpaceX of the 80s and 90s and IIRC they had the majority of the market for a few years. Unfortunately Europe got permanently got stuck in the early 2000s in quite a few ways.