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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by hypertele-Xii on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:23AM (#34856210)
You know you're living far into the future when you hear "traditional rocket industry" said unironically.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by inglor_cz on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:30AM (#34856270)
Well, solid-fuel rockets are a pretty old tech (medieval China) and even if we restrict ourselves to liquid-fueled rockets that crossed the Kármán line, the first German A-4 did so several years before the transistor was invented :)
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