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A comment on Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space. Parent comment

Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by simiones on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:23AM (#40925460)
A thing which can nearly get into orbit. It never quite reached it (probably intentionally). But more importantly, the recent Starship tests ran with no payload whatsoever, and they definitely didn't deploy anything into orbit.
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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by chgs on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:05PM (#40930264)
It reached orbital velocity, just in a suborbital direction. Had they pointed it a different way it would have been in orbit.
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