Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade: report

[Admin]

The CEO of France-based launch company Arianespace says Europe will have to wait until the 2030s for a reusable rocket.

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[Brad]

Maybe it's time to negotiate manufacturing rights for the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy. It would cut years and cost off the process.

 

[Lahila]

Arianespace is proving to fall short of Europe's space ambitions: SpaceX is launching for Oneweb, even though Arianespace is only targeting EU national public launches.

Why would SpaceX give up its monopoly for a company that never believed in reuse and always expected SpaceX's downfall?

A France fault from any point of view.

 

[Brad]

Arianespace is proving to fall short of Europe's space ambitions: SpaceX is launching for Oneweb, even though Arianespace is only targeting EU national public launches.

Why would SpaceX give up its monopoly for a company that never believed in reuse and always expected SpaceX's downfall?

A France fault from any point of view.

Whether or not the EU ever believed in reusability is beside the point. Spacex only has so many launch sites and only so many launch windows. It makes great business sense for them. The more rockets they build (directly or through licensing) the cheaper each one gets. Brings in royalties for years and sets up Spacex with long term support contracts. If you want access to space to be just like access to commercial flights, then you have to start thinking like airplane manufacturers and airlines.

 

[BigFire]

Arianespace is proving to fall short of Europe's space ambitions: SpaceX is launching for Oneweb, even though Arianespace is only targeting EU national public launches.

Why would SpaceX give up its monopoly for a company that never believed in reuse and always expected SpaceX's downfall?

A France fault from any point of view.

OneWeb actually contracted Ariane Space to launch their satellites with Roscosmos. After Vlad's war started, OneWeb needed to finish launching their satellites to complete their first phase shell, and SpaceX is literally the only company with spare launch capacity to handle this on such short notice. They did get their last birds launch with the Indian Space Launch Program. Oh, Ariane Space is the one that have to eat the Soyuz launch that didn't happened and the write off on the satellites that Roscosmos won't return.

 

[BigFire]

Maybe it's time to negotiate manufacturing rights for the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy. It would cut years and cost off the process.

ITAR & US State Department make it highly unlikely for that to happen.