A publicly funded agency isn’t going to win the economic race against SpaceX or other privately owned businesses. Ariane’s goal is to provide an independent alternative and bind talent. Their focus is reliability and precision (see JWST launch).
It is now. But Ariane 5 started first over 25 years ago (first launch 1996) with only 5 failures since. It had no failures between 2003 and 2017. That’s a solid reliability record…
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And they’re only trying first stage reusability, SpaceX has moved on to reusable second stages.
Technically speaking, AFAIK, it is some years now that Ariane has started a project about a partially reusable rocket
EDIT: Reading the article I think it is the same project? I assume I’m misreading your comment
A publicly funded agency isn’t going to win the economic race against SpaceX or other privately owned businesses. Ariane’s goal is to provide an independent alternative and bind talent. Their focus is reliability and precision (see JWST launch).
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It is now. But Ariane 5 started first over 25 years ago (first launch 1996) with only 5 failures since. It had no failures between 2003 and 2017. That’s a solid reliability record…