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The first orbital launch attempt from continental Europe, and the first of Europe’s batch of newspace commercial launch startups. I hope they figure out what ha
by tectonic 1y ago
The first orbital launch attempt from continental Europe, and the first of Europe’s batch of newspace commercial launch startups. I hope they figure out what happened and iterate quickly!
- zamadatix 1y agoI think that should be "first commercial orbital launch attempt from continental Europe". Commercial is required to exclude launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, orbital is required to exclude the Miura 1 attempt, Europe is required for obvious reasons & continental is required to exclude the LauncherOne attempt, and attempt is required for obvious reasons.
- rsynnott 1y ago> & continental is required to exclude the LauncherOne attempt Also to exclude a few hundred launches from French Guiana, which is politically part of France and the EU (but certainly not geographically in Europe).
- verzali 1y agoIf you want to get technical, Andoya is an island separated from continental Europe...
- iSnow 1y agoAlso the biggest German rocket since V2.