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>>15551033

desu Spain doesn't have a negligible Aerospace sector, they've got decades of experience and industry in military turboprop cargos frex.
but rocketry does tend to be more of a derivative of missile than aviation industry, one exemple is Brazil, whose VLS program was more of a derivative of their kinda-nich missile industry than their decently notable aviation sector.

France has all the technology and industrial capability for a national launcher, they [Arianegroup-France] make the M51, and various studies have shown M51 can basically be turned into a orbital launcher (1t to SSO) with a modified bus/warhead casing and a different S1 propellant loading. But 50 years of industrial consolidation and 20 years of CNES decline has mostly removed skills and facilities outside of Arianegroup. Latitude is struggling to impose itself; Germany. in that way is more fertile, hence why there are 3 main launcher startups there, with both RFA and Isar being decently financially secure

In britain Skyrora is having problems, Orbex is much more advanced but their CEO just resigned... I'm relatively confident Orbex Prime will launch someday tho. I think Orbex would count as British-made.
Avio is basically trying to make a national launcher with their HTE program. Vega is still mostly italian, even if the P80 was actually conceived by CNES, and dependent on French and Belgian industries.

>>15551033
desu Spain doesn't have a negligeable Aerospace sector, they've got decades of experience and industry in military turboprop cargos frex.
but rocketry does tend to be more of a derivative of missile than aviation industry, one exemple is Brazil, whose VLS program was more of a derivative of their kinda-nich missile industry than their decently notable aviation sector.

France has all the technology and industrial capability for a national launcher, they [Arianegroup-France] make the M51, and various studies have shown M51 can basically be turned into a orbital launcher (1t to SSO) with a modified bus/warhead casing and a different S1 propellant loading. But 50 years of industrial consolidation and 20 years of CNES decline has mostly removed skills and facilities outside of Arianegroup. Latitude is struggling to impose itself; Germanysecure. in that way is more fertile, hence why there are 3 main launcher startups there, with both RFA and Isar being decently financially

In britain Skyrora is having problems, Orbex is much more advanced but their CEO just resigned... I'm relatively confident Orbex Prime will launch someday tho. I think Orbex would count as British-made.