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		pavlov on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its... > "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.

JumpCrisscross on July 10, 2024 [–]

> 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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