Ramenastern t1_ixjmhw1 wrote
Reply to comment by My_Soul_to_Squeeze in Berlin to Back French-Built Rockets in Race Against Musk by Soupjoe5
There is that aspect to it, but it should be kept in mind that Ariane for the most part is a commercial operation, carrying commercial payloads, so it does have to be fairly competitive.
CosmosExpedition t1_ixk8xvd wrote
Ariane is too big to fail. Even if it was hemorrhaging money, either the French government would bail it out or a plan between the major European powers would probably be made to bail it out.
toodroot t1_ixks6v5 wrote
Arianespace is hemorrhaging money.
CosmosExpedition t1_ixkxm0r wrote
toodroot t1_ixky2oa wrote
Yes, that on-time completion of Ariane 6 really helped their financials! That plus the Amazon order means they didn't need any launch subsidies in the most recent ESA budget.
Oh, wait.
CosmosExpedition t1_ixl1x7i wrote
Let’s completely ignore publicly available financial data because… reasons! Arianespace is not hemorrhaging money. There is no debate here.
Sorry.
toodroot t1_ixl7bxy wrote
The article says that Arianespace expected to break even for 2021, including a subsidy.
How did 2022 turn out? Well, Arianespace had to give OneWeb some of their money back, Ariane 5 launched twice and one launch only had a single satellite, Vega C will probably launch twice, and woo hoo, 1 Soyuz launch in February.
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