Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Europe Builds the World’s Best Satellites, Then Rents SpaceX to Launch Them

Europe can build a satellite that guides a car through a tunnel, spots a wildfire from orbit, or timestamps a financial trade to the nanosecond. What it increasingly cannot do is put that satellite into space on a European rocket. The continent that helped invent modern spaceflight now finds itself stuck on a smaller, more uncomfortable question: not how to reach the stars, but how to catch a ride there. Policy experts keep describing Europe as …