The European Space Agency has been waiting for its turn, and finally its moment has come to show to the world that Europe is a challenger in the race to win space. The Ariane 6, their new rocket, is on its way to its maiden flight this year 2024. But here's the thing: some people are saying it's too little, too late. They think Europe's missed the boat on reusable rockets and that Ariane 6 is just a desperate attempt to play catch-up with the likes of SpaceX.
But hold up, hold up! Before you go writing off Ariane 6 as a lost cause, hear me out. Because I'm here to tell you that this rocket isn't just Europe's last hope; it's a game-changer in its own right. Ariane 6 isn't just about competing with SpaceX; it's about ensuring Europe's sovereignty in space and protecting its strategic interests.
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Great video, defenitly deserved more attention
Thank you, Spacer! 🧑🚀
Basically the same factors and characteristics of the other new, non-SpaceX launchers, like the ULA Vulcan and the Mitsubishi H3.
Correct, Spacer 🧑🚀
They lax lil bit goin to the moon first while us alpha longtime ago
As a European, I´m happy we will finaly regain independent launch capability, but let´s not kid ourselves. Ariane 6 is not here to win anything, it´s our ticket to participate. Each launch is subsidized by around 80-100 milion Euro and you can imagine how happy I´m to donate my taxpayer money to Jeff Bezos to launch his satelites. Calling that a win for Europe is ... to be polite ... misguided. Also, I don´t see how Ariane 6 offers reliability and schedule assurance. It was supposed to launch in 2020. It has no track record of success. Ariane 5 was a great and reliable launcher,A6 hasn´t launched once and will have to prove itself. The recent history of Vega C rockets shows that success of previous versions says nothing about the reliability of the new rocket.
launch is 50% of the 115millions of A5, its GEO rocket the market need it, as most spacex are LEO (frog jumps)
@@RaySqw785 If the actual costs were less than 60million, A6 wouldn´t need 340 million a year of subsidies, on top of the 4 billion they got for development. The fact that SpaceX launches mostly to LEO is completely irrelevant, they can launch to higher orbits when needed.
@@michalfaraday8135 made my day, Spacex received $25Billions since the first launch from public taxes payers, they just acheived the first stage reusable after 10 years, the 340m are to launch ESA sats cheaper between 2026-2030 and fill 6 launchs from ESA each year! F9 is soon dead as the price just growing from $52m to $70m in 6 years where they were supposed to decrease to $40m
We need more private launch companies to compete with Ariane-6, and Vega-C taxpaid money. Let's commercialized the space launch market for the best of Europe.
I agree, Spacer 🧑🚀 Europe should have at least a good a market as the US but right now it seems a bit behind. Let's hope the situation improves.
We actually have, we just have to start giving them deserved attention and contracts. We have prety promissing companies
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I kind of think that Elon Musk's Starship has a very long way to go before becoming truly successful and even longer to get human rating approval.
You're probably right, Spacer Sullivan. That might be why Ariane Next (the reusable Ariane rocket) is not a priority yet. They're waiting for someone to do reusable rockets well first.
Ariane 6 is not reusable. It’s a great 2010s rocket. Reliance on SRBs is a big obstacle to reusability. The booster needs 5+ deep throttling engines to enable propulsive landings.
Very true, Spacer 🧑🚀 The rocket that Ariane is working on to be reusable is Ariane Next (or SALTO).
F9 isn't reusable, and reusable stage only for out dated starlink stats at low LEO, 70 millions for a LEO rocket, A6 is cheaper on both LEO GEO to launch
But has a lot more cargo capacity then SpaceX rivals, for exemple
@@joaquimbarbosa896 F9 kerolox produce about like 400 transatlantic flighs of CO2 per launch, as they launch 100 its like 40k transatlantic airliners fligh od Co2 , the dirtiest rocket of the planet