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Re:Concordia Students Set to Launch Most Powerful Rocket Dev... by sokoloff on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:17AM (#34608628)
Blue Origin? Virgin Galactic?
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Re:Concordia Students Set to Launch Most Powerful Rocket Dev... by ben_w on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:56AM (#34608932)
Ansari X Prize, I think.

Is Arianespace purely civilian, or partially funded by military?

Also, TIL about the Civilian Space eXploration Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Space_eXploration_Tea...

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Re:Concordia Students Set to Launch Most Powerful Rocket Dev... by rsynnott on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:00AM (#34609341)
> Is Arianespace purely civilian, or partially funded by military?

Depends what you mean by _funded_, but certainly a lot of its customers are military or military-adjacent. Also, these days (it's had a _really_ complex ownership history), it's owned by a joint venture between Airbus and Safran, both of which are, amongst other things, defence contractors.

Realistically, _any_ large aerospace venture is going to involve, at a minimum, working with defence contractors; that's just how the industry is.

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