‘SpaceX I would say is the more operational of those and certainly one of the back-up launches we are looking at,’ Europe’s space agency says
The European Space Agency has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia’s Soyuz rockets.
“Japan is waiting for the inaugural flight of its next generation rocket. Another option could be India,” he added in an interview. Satellite internet firm OneWeb, a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet venture, booked at least one Falcon 9 launch in March. It has also booked an Indian launch.
Aschbacher said a more precise Ariane 6 schedule would be clearer in October. Only then would ESA finalize a back-up plan to be presented to ministers of the agency’s 22 nations in November. “This was a wake up call, that we have been too dependent on Russia. And this wake-up call, we have to hope that decision makers realize it as much as I do, that we have to really strengthen our European capability and independence.”
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