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Re:ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehea... by dylan604 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:39PM (#38400161)
>The US government keeps funding SpaceX through a number military and civilian contracts

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but to me it came across as the gov't giving money to SpaceX just to keep it alive instead of the US gov't actively doing business with a company successfully launching their assets into orbit.

NASA continuing to award Blue Origin contracts is funding BO since they haven't done anything.

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Re:ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehea... by hef19898 on Friday November 24, 2023 @01:23AM (#38401117)
It's both. Pretty much the same kind of dispute ended up for decades in a gridlock between the US and Europe with regards tobgiverbment subsidies between Boeing and Airbus. That one ended with a settlement.
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