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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by ambicapter on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @10:20AM (#40927211)
Right? At a certain point, governments are the only entities that can afford to send things to space. "Highly-subsidized" here just means "government is 99% of company's market base".
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Re:Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space by pfdietz on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:34AM (#40928089)
That certain point is in the past. Today, all sorts of private entities send things into space. As launch gets cheaper, private activities in space will dominate, if they don't already.
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