Originally Posted by
UltraFan
What's laughable is how accurate and up-to-date your knowledge is. They were studying fly-back boosters, and then the project was cancelled. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Read and weep:
Basically, the same conclusions NASA had about Space Shuttle's "reusable" boosters.
What's laughable is how accurate and up-to-date
your knowledge is. They
ARE studying fly-back boosters
Dated THIS September...
Europe's rocket-launching industry is gearing up to go reusable.
The European launch provider
Arianespace — best known as the manufacturer of the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the future Ariane 6 — has a plan to make its future rockets more competitive in a tight launch industry.
As you might guess from looking at the U.S. company
SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 and
Falcon Heavy rockets,
reusability is what Arianespace wants to do as well.
Back in February, ArianeGroup and CNES (the French space agency) signed a memorandum of understanding for a new "acceleration platform" that will work to develop new launchers,
including reusable ones.
The platform, called ArianeWorks, unites teams under one roof and provides all the ingredients possible for innovation: "a highly flexible environment, open to new players and internationally,"
according to a press release from the time.
And with that, I'm out of this discussion.
Bye...
