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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by 627467 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:26AM (#40925746)
that's a marginal improvement in attitude than previous Arianespace leaders:

> "Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year. That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: 'Goodbye, see you next year!'"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/ariane-chief-seems-f...

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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by sgu999 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:44AM (#40925832)
They must have poached him from the consumer electronics industry... Thanks for sharing this ridiculous statement.

I remember one of the execs of ArianeSpace or ESA just a couple years ago stating on radio with much confidence that SpaceX would never manage to reuse a rocket.

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