skyraider17 t1_j1eny96 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 7:20 PM

Reply to comment by mcchanical in The European Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana on Tuesday with two Airbus satellites on board by DoremusJessup

>Only just now that Soyuz is suddenly off the table do you say Europe needs to get it's act together.

Or it could be that the Vega has had its 3rd failure. If only 1 of 8 launches had failed they probably wouldn't be saying that

mcchanical t1_j1f3fwk wrote on December 23, 2022 at 9:09 PM

The Vega launch system is not "Europe". It's a single launch vehicle. When a system has problems, you don't immediately start slinging mud at the entire continent it's based in.