Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will not be competitive

Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets wi... by amelius on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:53PM (#26546864)

The main difference between EU and SpaceX is probably investors.

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Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets wi... by Daho0n on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:50PM (#26548469)

And that SpaceX sells its packages overpriced to the military. It's normally called state-funding but not in this instance.

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Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets wi... by morei on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:42PM (#26549031)

The real world is more complicated than just 'overpriced to the military'.

To heavily paraphrase the story: The US military has a number of unusual requirements that are not cheap to meet (security, extra review, etc etc). SpaceX originally balked at a number of those requirements, but after a fair bit of back and forth, they eventually threw up their hands and said "Sure! Whatever you want, but you have to pay all the extra costs". And so the US military launches are significantly more expensive than the commercial launches, but the large part of that is because the costs are genuinely higher.

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Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets wi... by giomasce on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:05PM (#26547039)

And political fragmentation.

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