/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14564390
There's nothing to latch to that would bring any more business than today, we are also getting sick of building stuff for International Project and see them are held back by clusterfuck like Artemis.

Europe are working on
- our own constellation to not be left with no room left in orbit after Starlink,
- our own Reusable rocket,
- see if Ariane 6 can be made reusable (it was supposed to have been considered early stage),
- putting back on the table the question of having our own manned launcher (Ariane 5 was meant for manned launch originally)

We know we may not do better (everywhere) but we will have our own capabilities in case of a sudden loss elsewhere. Just like NASA escaped a major crisis thanks to SpaceX taking over Russia's manned launch.

>>14564402
As a Frenchman we ARE a major power, even without Europe.
But we aren't stupid and know we can't compete against countries several time our size, it's incredible we rank as high as we do against countries from 5 to 100 times our population and infinite times the critical resources.
From my personal point of view the US is actually a disappointment jobbing for a century who should have been capable of far more if it had been anywhere as functional efficient as France (instead of trying to destroy Europe to remove competitors).

Anyway, we should steer off politic so please focus on this distracting picture.