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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 pavlov on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:34AM (#40925786)
> "would agree not to develop a competing rocket design in the next 20 yrs"

Isn't the whole point of Ariane to maintain European capability for independent space launches?

It would be very hard to spin that up from nowhere after twenty years of complete inactivity.

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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:46AM (#40926284)
> would be very hard to spin that up from nowhere after twenty years of complete inactivity

That’s not the only alternative.

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