Get in here faggots:
arianespace.com
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Arianespace LIVE Launch
Dylan Cruz
Matthew Nguyen
HABBENING
Ayden Hernandez
INB4 SURRENDER
Jace Wright
>bump
Eli Ward
Toasting
Jason Carter
GO VEGA
Michael Cooper
>tfw your rocket is literally a toothbrush
Wyatt Allen
DID THEY CATCH THE RUD FROM SPACEX OR ARE THEY GONNA MAKE IT?
Bentley Gutierrez
LE SURRENDERE
Brody Green
THAT TWR THO
HOW CAN US EVEN COMPETE?
Evan Robinson
>that cgi render
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING
James Parker
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Joseph Rogers
>2017
>no live stream from the rocket as it flies into space.
yuropoors
Caleb Phillips
They dont' want to show us the flat horizon
Andrew Fisher
euros are building carbon fiber solid propellant rockets lol what a buncha clowns
Grayson Russell
Strong and light.
Andrew Cruz
SpaceX will be underpricing them soon enough
They just have issues with launch rate right now
Daniel Turner
Even so, there's politics involved and ESA will find ways to secure launches based on European missions regardless of price.
Either way it's great that all launch providers are innovating, competition is good for all.
Parker King
Successful separation of Sat!
Joseph Collins
Price isn't the only factor. All-solid rockets can be stored and launched at short notice and in bursts of launches in rapid succession. (technically Vega isn't all-solid, but the small storable-propellant upper stage isn't going to take longer to get ready for launch than the payload)
>there's politics involved
More to the point, there are military applications involved. Vega is essentially an ICBM.
Matthew Parker
Vega is one of the only small launchers that is NOT derived from an ICBM! It is derived from the boosters of the Ariane 5. Japan's Epsilon is the same (H-IIAs solid booster), whereas the American, Russian, and Chinese small launchers are all derived from their ICBMs.