SalmonNgiri t1_isu4jqe wrote on October 18, 2022 at 6:43 PM

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.

pompanoJ t1_isvmlhs wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:54 AM

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

trukises t1_isyipdl wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:07 PM

Arianespace is just slightly less porkbarrelly than SLS.

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

Khraxter t1_iszmjje wrote on October 19, 2022 at 9:21 PM

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

trukises t1_itbgfk1 wrote on October 22, 2022 at 10:55 AM

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

Layer_4_Solutions t1_it0ppg4 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:10 AM

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.

Layer_4_Solutions t1_it0plcs wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:09 AM

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