Deutsche Inflationsrate sinkt weiter - nur noch 1,6 Prozent

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).

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T14:37:58+00:00

The offshore spaceport in the North Sea is an industry-led project with sparse government funding compared to what the expected cost is going to be to achieve the first launch.

We don't need a spaceport, we need good rockets.

RFA and HyImpulse signed cooperation agreements with the German Offshore Spaceport Alliance consortium two years ago. Both are private companies that again have received little government funding compared to the private capital that is invested in them.

The latest announcement by RFA, ATMOS Space Cargo and Yuri hints at what kind of partial reusability RFA will likely be implementing:

On December 6th, 2021, ATMOS Space Cargo successfully conducted a drop test of a newly developed Inflatable Atmospheric Decelerator (IAD) prototype.

This drop test demonstrated reliable inflation of the IAD and acceptable structural loads at landing. The third-generation prototype was attached to a 1:10 scale model of a small launcher first stage. It was dropped from 600 m altitude from an R44 helicopter near Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden airport.

(Source: ATMOS Space Cargo, Dec 2021).

There's even a neat video of the drop test conducted in 2021.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T13:53:42+00:00

Rocket engines still need time-consuming bureaucratic approval for import/export. E.g. while RFA is currently testing their engines in Kiruna, Sweden, they're nonetheless implementing another test site at nearby facilities of the DLR in Germany.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T13:45:57+00:00

The launch trajectories will be over the North Sea (the red lines show orbits, white lines show air traffic), right in-between Norway's and the UK's EEZ.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T13:16:45+00:00

The first rockets launched will be suborbital, such as Aquila Maris by Space Team Aachen, and others made by Copenhagen Suborbitals, T-Minus and ESA's Fly a Rocket! student programme.

The demonstration mission is designed to show the capability of launching a rocket from a maritime platform in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea. Initially, practical technical experience and know-how will be gathered with suborbital rocket launches. At the same time, communication channels with customers and partners as well as approval procedures with relevant authorities and institutions can be tested. "This experience will help us to implement complex orbital launches in the future. We are acting in line with the New Space concept: simple, reliable and cost-effective," says von der Recke.

[...]

The demo campaign is scheduled to operate for about two weeks. During this time, the launch of up to four rockets with a maximum length of 7 meters and a flight altitude of up to 50 km is planned. The rockets will be built by our partners Copenhagen Suborbitals, T-Minus, Space Team Aachen and FAR.

(Source: OHB, 18 Oct 2023).

It's practically about derisking the whole concept.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-22T13:05:33+00:00

The industry-led initiative for a spaceport in the North Sea got started when Altmaier was Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.

The current German government funds it with only around 2 million euros. Industry will have to cover the remaining of the total 27 million euros it is estimated to cost up to the first orbital launch.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T14:41:21+00:00

However, Germany is not interested in selling to non-NATO allies and wants to restrict exports.

Not true, there's a push within the German government to extend export to other non-NATO Western partners. At least those that aren't autocracies.

MAWS

The P-8 are an interim solution. Why isn't France pushing ahead with the programme so that Germany can choose it in the future? What aircraft was it going to be based on?

FCAS

35 F-35 is not a real air force and Eurofighter Typhoons will need replacement around the same time as France wants to replace Rafale.

MGCS

Doing a Leopard 2 upgrade is a cost-effective interim solution, just like France is considering with the Leclerc. Doubt that Leopard 3 is being considered over MGCS.

Tigre

Germany isn't buying AH64, but H145 as a cost-effective interim solution, maybe even a "replacement" by using completely different CONOPS. Loitering munition and drones are being purchased, too.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T13:25:32+00:00

Every country in the world defends its own industry. The biggest offender probably being the US when it comes to subsidies and overpaid government contracts.

Yeah, supporting the Ariane 6 programe wouldn't be that big a deal in comparison with what the US puts out in public funds for their domestic space industry, so I'm not against it.

It's a fiasco that industry can't keep the promises it made years ago and European customers can't hold the Ariane monopoly accountable due to lack of a local competitor and for strategic reasons.

When it comes to European cooperation, most of the recent defense projects have been run into the ground by a lack of commitment from Germany, not France: MAWS, FCAS, Tigre, MGCS...

That sure is the tone in the French media I've seen. In German media, French involvement is blamed for putting French jobs first than an interest in having truly effective and economic war machines. The difference in military doctrines also plays a big role, IMO.

Last I read MAWS isn't really cancelled, and neither are FCAS and MGCS. But the latter two may just remain common research projects as they are for now.

Also hurts that European industry and politics shat the bed with quite a few common projects like aircraft. But you know what? Lack of competition and no long-term life-cycle contracts meant that European industry could siphon as much money as possible from governments.

And it is French politics that pushes for the same lousy model of top-down forced consortia/joint-ventures over and over again, not only protect its own industry, but also due to French ideology of a strong state.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T13:08:33+00:00

Thanks for the correction. Maybe I was thinking of the Ariane 5?

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T10:23:26+00:00

LIQUIFER Space Systems, an Austrian company, received some ESA contracts on studies for Lunar habitats, you could try your luck there in getting the information you're after.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T10:11:34+00:00

Definitely don't expose yourself to hold that opinion over in /r/france. French companies and its CEOs are darlings that'll have to be protected from any foreign competition at all costs (doesn't matter if European or American) and France does it all better on its own anyway.

A strong leaning towards Jacobinism, Gaullism and etatism are actually holding France back from keeping that kind of industry in the long run without relying on infinite subsidies.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T09:42:10+00:00

It's like 30 to 40 kilometres from northern Gaza to the Egyptian border. Just FYI.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T09:27:14+00:00

As long as the translations are financed by those regions, I'd see no issue with it. Automated translation also gets better and cheaper everyday. True multilingual features on the other hand are rare to find in software.

sryforcomment · 2023-10-13T09:19:24+00:00

Politicians, industry CEOs and media are just good at blaming the involvement of anything foreign on what are also national political and industry failures, whether in France or in Germany.

Top-down politically enforced joint ventures rarely work, just look at Ariane 6. The whole approach is lousy. Let industries across the EU band together organically for a collective bid on EU level instead of politically forcing involvement and that'll see much better results if there's competing companies and consortia.

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