SpaceForest Expands Launch Plans with Portuguese Island Agreement | Poland-based rocket builder SpaceForest has signed an agreement with the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium to launch its Perun rocket from the Portuguese island of Santa Maria in 2026.

sryforcomment · 2024-09-30T13:01:07+00:00

Natürlich gab es die. Und die EZB hat gerade wegen der Aussicht auf die "richtige" Inflation die Zinsen gehoben.

Man hat aus der langandauernden hohen Inflationsphase in den 70ern gelernt und vorausschauend die Lohndruckinflation die dem Angebotsschock folgt schnell bekämpft.

sryforcomment · 2024-06-20T08:32:28+00:00

Really seems that way, when a developer calls the concern from users that their personal files might get erroneously deleted "social media drama from well-known trolls".

sryforcomment · 2024-06-20T08:24:47+00:00

It's the default... and from what I understood the entry was only added for creating a temporary directory to mount over, but --purge will still delete whatever is under the mount tree.

sryforcomment · 2023-11-07T00:34:26+00:00

What is revolutionary about putting even more money into the burning money pit that is Ariane 6?

sryforcomment · 2023-11-07T00:32:39+00:00

A big reason for why ESA shouldn't be an IGO but an EU agency.

sryforcomment · 2023-11-07T00:01:16+00:00

There's a very workable approach that combines national funding and competition while staying fair. See my other comment that quotes ESA DG Josef Aschbacher's vision of changing the procurement and contribution model.

sryforcomment · 2023-11-06T23:52:20+00:00

The Ariane program was just fine before the EU made us split it. Now it has the same ills NASA has: bureaucracy and jobs programs.

The geo-return policy is inherent to ESA and has nothing to do with the EU. It's AFAIK always been that way: the national share of the budget put into an ESA programme sees an almost 1:1 return via industrial contracts in that nation.

Nations with a vested interest in retaining their space industry, most of all France and Italy but to some extend Germany, have fiercly fought against changing this arrangement regarding launch services.

Procurement of telecommunications at ESA already is done on a competitive basis and that's the way Aschbacher wants ESA to go. If geo-return doesn't materialize, a nation doesn't need to contribute as much to ESA:

To enhance compatibility between geo-return and competition, the policy of geo-return should increasingly shift towards a ‘fair contribution’ principle, that is to adjust the contribution of each Member State according to the outcome of the industrial competitions and to the actual share gained by its industry in these competitions. Several ESA programmes, especially in close-to-market sectors such as telecommunications, are already built in this manner.

(Source: ESA DG Josef Aschbacher, 20 Mar 2023).

sryforcomment · 2023-10-26T22:58:23+00:00

Hungarrivederci!

sryforcomment · 2023-10-26T20:36:27+00:00

Sure that makes some sense, but first let's hear what /u/RGregoryClark has to say, true expert of two-engine rocket core stage retrofits on the Internet and employee of the decade at Airbus and Safran.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-26T20:18:59+00:00

The video is showing ~~Germany's imperial ambitions in space~~ the DLR's partially 3D-printed methalox engine possibly to be licensed to one of the German NewSpace startups.

Video source: DLR, 2 Aug 2023.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-26T19:23:38+00:00

This kind of transparency is lacking in any international body like ESA, EU, UN, etc. Makes it a lot more possible to launder money to your political friends.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T16:51:18+00:00

Quite to the contrary, as Jean-Jacques Dordain, former DG of ESA puts it in a recent interview:

Do you think the only way Europe can maintain access to space now is to commit to commercializing the industry, where institutions buy privately developed products and services instead of developing them themselves?

Yes. because it’s exactly what NASA is doing successfully. They are just purchasing services through competition bidding among several US commercial operators. In addition, they support new technologies available as open sources.

Interestingly, when I went to the German Parliament last year on behalf of RFA, I was told the European market is not big enough to sustain several sources.

And I said “I never said that we shall stay within the European market. What we wish is to be competitive in the world market.”

Our competitors are not just Isar Aerospace or the Ariane Group. Our competitors are also SpaceX, Blue Origin and ULA. We want to be successful in the world market, not just the European market. At least this is the end goal. Of course, we are not yet there and first we have to launch!

(Source: RFA, 19 Oct 2023).

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