>That Arianespace, a French rival of SpaceX Well... almost as much as the NASA being a rival of SpaceX, Arianespace being the French/European initiative for sp

>That Arianespace, a French rival of SpaceX Well... almost as much as the NASA being a rival of SpaceX, Arianespace being the French/European initiative for space access. Arianespace was founded in 1980 to commercialize the Ariane launcher (planned in 1973 after the europa launcher failure).