Sébastien Lecornu laid the first stone on Friday, in his town of Vernon (Eure), of a reusable rocket factory of the French start-up MaiaSpace, encouraging him to "start" because the Et...
The plant will eventually cover 12,000 square metres and produce various rocket components with a capacity of 4 tons in low orbit, compared with 22.8 tons for SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
"The urgency, now, is to start", because "you play big", without "advance over the big competitors", in a constrained budgetary context, and while "the clouds are still rather black and numerous above the policies...