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SalmonNgiri t1_isu4jqe wrote

I know this is a benign tweet but a part of me is fully subscribed to the narrative that this is the ESA throwing shade at NASA.

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pompanoJ t1_isvmlhs wrote

Just imagine how much more quickly and cheaply they could have gotten the 6 ready if they had used off-the-shelf components!

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trukises t1_isyipdl wrote

Arianespace is just slightly less porkbarrelly than SLS.

The main objective is to keep the European space industry ticking. Cost efficiency is secondary.

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Khraxter t1_iszmjje wrote

That's... Completely wrong. Ariane 6 is a very important program that's designed to keep ESA and Arianespace competitive on the commercial space launch market.

Cost efficiency is very much not secondary

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trukises t1_itbgfk1 wrote

Yeah, that's one of many problems. Ariane should be the objective, not the means.

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Layer_4_Solutions t1_it0ppg4 wrote

Then they are doing a bad job of it. Ariane 6 will still be far more expensive than a Falcon 9.

And Starship will blow both of them out of the water.

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Layer_4_Solutions t1_it0plcs wrote

Well this thing won't launch until 2024 at earliest, so not very good shade.

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