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buggy-pull-buggy, 2 miesiące temu w ESA and India Agree to Cooperate on Human Spaceflight - European Spaceflight

Is it only because they both hate Muslims?

burble, miesiąc temu w OLM Plans to Offer Commercial Launch Services from Sardinia - European Spaceflight

Suborbital

Starlight is designed to carry a payload of up to 50 kilograms to an altitude of around 130 kilometres.

Still neat to see another European launch site open up.

the_mighty_kracken, miesiąc temu w ESA and India Agree to Cooperate on Human Spaceflight - European Spaceflight

Hold my Kevin

burble, miesiąc temu w Arianespace and Avio Call for Enforced European Launcher Preference

Europe calls on them to have rockets available to launch.

Complaining that SpaceX stole their lunch is a bit of an own goal when Ariane 6 was so delayed, Vega scrapped some tanks they needed, and Vega C was grounded for 2 years.

threelonmusketeers, 21 dni temu w ESA prepares downselect for European Launcher Challenge

I hope MaiaSpace are successful. A launch vehicle with a reusable booster would be great for Europe.

threelonmusketeers, 20 dni temu w ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

Neat! It seems like interstellar objects pass through our solar system pretty often. The more we look, the more we find.

BevelGear, 20 dni temu w ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

Thank you for sharing this. This is truly a rare event

burble, 18 dni temu w European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveiled

I’m glad that a bunch of startups made the cut. It makes sense that Maiaspace got in, as an arm of Ariane, but they’re probably less strapped for cash. And thank goodness at least two have reusable concepts, PLD and Maia.

threelonmusketeers, 16 dni temu

Yeah, it’s a solid bunch. We’re coming up on ten years since the first Falcon 9 booster landing. Multiple chinese companies are developing F9 clones. Europe really ought to be testing reusable boosters by now. Hopefully at least one of these will work out.

burble, 15 dni temu

As much crap as I give the incumbents, Maia is looking like Europe’s best bet at the moment.

It’s a bad sign that PLD isn’t targeting a Miura Next launch until 2030. Hopefully Miura 5 goes well for them in 2026.

burble, 12 dni temu w [Stephen Clark] Sizing up the 5 companies selected for Europe’s launcher challenge

I don’t think Europe will get a SpaceX, but I could see some of these companies being their Rocketlab and Firefly.

threelonmusketeers, 6 dni temu w ESA Finally Kicks Off Flying Engine Testbed Project Following ITT Reissue

I didn’t expect ESA to get into hypersonics too. Have any previous spaceplanes had air-breathing engines?

threelonmusketeers, 5 dni temu w ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

Glad to see that ExoMars is progressing despite cooperation with Russia falling through.

threelonmusketeers, 16 godzin temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Liftoff!

threelonmusketeers, 16 godzin temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 1-2

threelonmusketeers, 16 godzin temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 2-3 and fairing separation.

threelonmusketeers, 16 godzin temu w CO3D & MicroCarb Launch Thread

Staging 3-4 and AVUM+ burn 1 in progress.