il futuro dei viaggi spaziali in un video pubblicato il 03/01/2024 sul canale YouTube di ESA
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Sfrutto la discussione per segnalare un editoriale di Europe in Space - IMHO interessante e ricco di spunti - sul futuro del mercato dei lanciatori europei.
I am still not convinced ESA really has any idea how it intends to handle the development of a successor to Ariane 6. With the introduction of the launcher challenge, it appears that the agency wants to shift the bulk of the responsibility onto commercial actors, much like the US has done. However, Europe just doesn’t offer the same huge NASA and defence contracts that sustained a company like SpaceX in its early days. I’m not sure Europe really offers an environment for a similar development path. Also, what does this direction mean for programmes like Prometheus and Themis? Are the results of these programmes left to ArianeGroup to do as with as they please? Is it a better approach to maybe go in the opposite direction and take a greater role in the development of an Ariane successor?
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