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The “Space Summit” gathering in Seville, Spain, will encompass several topics, including the future of launch.

Now, it’s possible this crisis will lead to the breakup of a decades-long partnership in Europe, led by the nations of France, Germany, and Italy, to collaborate on the development of launch capabilities.

Germany, he said, pushed for a midlife evolution of the Ariane 5, modernizing elements of the rocket and bringing down its cost.

As a compromise in 2014, the chairman of Airbus, Tom Enders, emerged with an “industry” solution to build the Ariane 6 rocket.

With the retirement of the Ariane 5, and the Russian Soyuz rocket off the market due to the war in Ukraine, Europe finds itself in the embarrassing position of relying on SpaceX to get some of its most valuable missions into orbit.

So Europe has spent a decade and many billions of euros developing the Ariane 6 rocket, but all it has gotten it to date is a gap in the capability of launching satellites to orbit.

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