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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by realityking on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:03AM (#40927011)
> The government buys from the lowest bidder

To my knowledge, in the case of NASA’s launch contracts, only US companies are allowed to bid on these. It’s quite understandable that Europe would like to keep domestic capabilities the same way NASA aims to maintain the US’ domestic capabilities.

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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by TMWNN on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:23PM (#40942515)
>To my knowledge, in the case of NASA’s launch contracts, only US companies are allowed to bid on these.

Not true. One example: <https://www.yahoo.com/news/ariane-5-rocket-delivers-satellit...>

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