Expendable rockets are soooo 1957.
And the French Ariane program is in trouble too.
Harvesting a bit of web traffic again, are we?
“it makes no sense for them to try to compete with SpaceX in the launch market”
no, it really doesn’t.
Elon Musk may be full of it when it comes to building electric cars (after all, batteries are WAY harder than rockets), but his SpaceX corporation has made mind-boggling advances in rocket technology, leaving stodgy NASA back in the dust of the Model T days of space exploration.
One of the latest thing that’s mind blowing is the 3-D printing of the entire SuperDraco rocket engine chamber with Inconel superalloy:
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The power of free enterprise.
BTTT
Expendable rockets are soooo 1957.
And the French Ariane program is in trouble too.
Sound like the Russians don't think that at 4% of the overall 'space services' market, the 'launch vehicle' segment is really that big or lucrative...do you disagree?
Bonus Round for private industry!!!
Nor can they keep up in defense spending and innovations. Putin lost a lot of face last week after saying they would protect Syria and did nothing to stop our missiles. Everyone around the world watching got the message.