this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2026
92 points (98.9% liked)

World News

58019 readers
992 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world

Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Thoughts on this?

I'm in Europe (well, the UK) and I definitely want to see Europe develop as much of its own space industry as possible, so Europe doesn't have to rely on foreign billionaires or dictators for space services.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ariane is an absolute shit show. Unfortunately the European space sector had gotten the bureaucratic rot which is always difficult to fight in government run entities.

I despise the space sector being overrun by VCs, but we really really need something competitive to spacex in Europe, and ariane and vega will never be it. And unfortunately ESA (and definitely not EUSpa) are just not up to it currently. ESA are evolving though, and have made huge strides in adjusting processes and enabling more efficient development.

(I work in the space sector, and I literally just submitted a bid to an ESA tender today 😅)

[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

That makes sense. I don't know tons about the space industry but I think SLS in America has been very expensive, while private rockets - from morally bankrupt billionaires - have turned out to be much more affordable. Hopefully Europe will have more success with rockets, whether publicly or privately owned, but preferably without the morally bankrupt billionaires.