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Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Like an approaching storm cloud



Europe's newest rocket Ariane 6 blasts off in 'historic' maiden voyage

If the full launch is a success, it will give the European Space Agency (ESA) the ability to launch satellites again by itself.


Europe smarts as Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins key satellite deal

Launching a weather satellite with SpaceX and not Ariane 6 is a “surprising” decision, said Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency.



Like an approaching storm cloud, we can almost see the anti-SpaceX propaganda looming. The indications and the sniping have been around for a while, naturally enough perhaps. Musk is too outspoken, too successful and worst of all he's unofficial.

5 comments:

DiscoveredJoys said...

An illustration of how rich, how outspoken and how successful you have to be if you wish to publicly ignore those defending their privilege.

A K Haart said...

DJ - yes, not much hope for the rest of us.

Sam Vega said...

Launching a weather satellite with SpaceX and not Ariane 6 is a “surprising” decision

Very surprising. How on earth did they manage to avoid calling it a climate satellite?

Bucko said...

I wonder how long it will be before the EU launches an 'investigation' into Elon Musk and his financial activities? This seems like the new go to method for removing people who's opinions the left don't like

A K Haart said...

Sam - good point, a missed opportunity. A few PR people will be furious about that.