Rocket_wanker t1_j1xe1zm wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:35 AM

Unfortunate for Arianespace, seems like they’ve been in the news a lot in the past few years for partial or complete failures. In and of itself a brand new vehicle failing is not a big deal…although comparisons to F9 are not valid given the difference in engineering approach.

Concur with stance of author in terms of Isar dunking on a fellow space co. for a launch failure when they’re not even close to the launch pad. Everyone has 100% success when you don’t have a vehicle. Makes em look pathetic.

spottiesvirus t1_j1xfzma wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:51 AM

But I think that's largely due to how Europe manage their space program, NASA with sls doesn't make much better and in Europe we are really adverse to the growth of market competitors like SpaceX, rocket lab, relativity space ecc.

I don't feel it's right to point at Ariane as they're just a contractor that does and bring forward programs decided by ESA