The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES.
Do we need this? Like honestly?
Is the extra space junk worth low ping satellite internet?
It’s pretty expensive and only actually useful in very rural areas.
Please do. Anyone but Elon
As Mr. Berger points out, launching the constellation in a timely and affordable fashion will be another challenge.
SpaceX has a huge advantage from step 1, not just launching on their own rockets, but also the 1st stage and fairing reusability has given them an even greater cost savings.
The only way they’ll come close to their timing and cost estimates is if they buy a bunch of launches from SpaceX.
You can’t have a Starlink competitor without a Falcon 9 (and then Starship) competitor.
Also giving old space (Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, SES, Thales Alenia Space) more money will not provide us with a european Falcon 9.
Space race space race space race space race space race space race space race
This is a very necessary service to have independent as much as you want independent access to space
Cool. Good luck.
As if we don’t have enough space debris
Good luck becoming a competitor, spaceX is private. Can you imagine how this will play out?
They’ll launch it on the Falcon 9 lol
The UK has oneweb
It’s cool that all the big European space sat companies are working together, but the issue isn’t does Europe have the technology to build the satellites, it does. But does Europe have a rocket capable of launching a lot of payload quickly. Remember that Spectrum regulators such as the FCC and European equivalent require the use of that Spectrum within a certain period of it being awarded otherwise it is given away.
Also if you want high speed and low latency you need to be in Low earth orbit, meaning lots of sats for global coverage, thousands easily. Unless Europe borrows SpaceX’s homework and develops a Falcon 9 competitor like tomorrow, They will be unable to get the sats into orbit.
And if they do book Falcon 9, then that negates the purpose of a European independent project.
14 comments
The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES.
Do we need this? Like honestly?
Is the extra space junk worth low ping satellite internet?
It’s pretty expensive and only actually useful in very rural areas.
Please do. Anyone but Elon
As Mr. Berger points out, launching the constellation in a timely and affordable fashion will be another challenge.
SpaceX has a huge advantage from step 1, not just launching on their own rockets, but also the 1st stage and fairing reusability has given them an even greater cost savings.
The only way they’ll come close to their timing and cost estimates is if they buy a bunch of launches from SpaceX.
You can’t have a Starlink competitor without a Falcon 9 (and then Starship) competitor.
Also giving old space (Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, SES, Thales Alenia Space) more money will not provide us with a european Falcon 9.
Space race space race space race space race space race space race space race
This is a very necessary service to have independent as much as you want independent access to space
Cool. Good luck.
As if we don’t have enough space debris
Good luck becoming a competitor, spaceX is private. Can you imagine how this will play out?
They’ll launch it on the Falcon 9 lol
The UK has oneweb
It’s cool that all the big European space sat companies are working together, but the issue isn’t does Europe have the technology to build the satellites, it does. But does Europe have a rocket capable of launching a lot of payload quickly. Remember that Spectrum regulators such as the FCC and European equivalent require the use of that Spectrum within a certain period of it being awarded otherwise it is given away.
Also if you want high speed and low latency you need to be in Low earth orbit, meaning lots of sats for global coverage, thousands easily. Unless Europe borrows SpaceX’s homework and develops a Falcon 9 competitor like tomorrow, They will be unable to get the sats into orbit.
And if they do book Falcon 9, then that negates the purpose of a European independent project.