They also bought 12 Blue Origin and 38 ULA launches.
As Eric Berger put it, they basically booked out capacity on Western Rockets for the next 5 years… excluding SpaceX and smallsat launchers.
And none of these rockets exist yet. So it seems a safe bet that they won’t all be able to maintain this cadence and there will be some delay. So probably more than 5 years.
I tried to find out which companies/countries are essentially benefitting from this in the longterm but those company structures are too complicated for me. e.g. 60% of Arianespace is owned by the Arianegroup which is a French company which is again owned by Airbus but the Space and Defense section of Airbus is German. Can anyone break this down?
I am not sure I am a fan of these constellations. When it comes to night sky and land-based astronomy, they are bound to be a disaster, aren’t they?
How long until Amazon becomes the modern day equivalent of the East Indies Company?
If feels like they mainly buy long term political support for their fight against Spacex.
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They also bought 12 Blue Origin and 38 ULA launches.
As Eric Berger put it, they basically booked out capacity on Western Rockets for the next 5 years… excluding SpaceX and smallsat launchers.
And none of these rockets exist yet. So it seems a safe bet that they won’t all be able to maintain this cadence and there will be some delay. So probably more than 5 years.
I tried to find out which companies/countries are essentially benefitting from this in the longterm but those company structures are too complicated for me. e.g. 60% of Arianespace is owned by the Arianegroup which is a French company which is again owned by Airbus but the Space and Defense section of Airbus is German. Can anyone break this down?
I am not sure I am a fan of these constellations. When it comes to night sky and land-based astronomy, they are bound to be a disaster, aren’t they?
How long until Amazon becomes the modern day equivalent of the East Indies Company?
If feels like they mainly buy long term political support for their fight against Spacex.