{"id":1199875,"date":"2023-11-06T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199875"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:00:15","slug":"ariane-6-cost-and-delays-bring-european-launch-industry-to-a-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199875","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FfRwLxaX0AAHVze-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"A pathfinder version of the Ariane 6 rocket is seen at launch facilities in Kourou, French Guiana.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/FfRwLxaX0AAHVze.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"853\" data-width=\"1280\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A pathfinder version of the Ariane 6 rocket is seen at launch facilities in Kourou, French Guiana. (credit: European Space Agency)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>European space officials will convene on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the future of space policy for the continent. The &#8220;Space Summit&#8221; gathering in Seville, Spain, will encompass several topics, including the future of launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seville will be a very decisive moment for space in Europe,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AschbacherJosef\/status\/1721120207953871214\">said<\/a> the director general of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, on the eve of the summit. &#8220;On launchers, and on exploration, I expect ministers to really make very bold decisions. I certainly expect a paradigm shift on the launcher sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aschbacher has previously described Europe&#8217;s rocket predicament\u2014the venerable Ariane 5 has retired, its replacement, Ariane 6, is not ready, and the smaller Vega C rocket is also having teething problems\u2014as an acute crisis. Now, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981244#p3\">Read 14 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981244&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A pathfinder version of the Ariane 6 rocket is seen at launch facilities in Kourou, French Guiana. (credit: European Space Agency) European space officials will convene on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the future of space policy for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199875\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1199875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}