<story><title>It&apos;s official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-official-europe-turns-to-the-falcon-9-to-launch-its-navigation-satellites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandyaboot</author><text>Europe is now the only large scale producer of well-built commercial aircraft.</text></item><item><author>tekla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so weird how increasingly irrelevant Europe is becoming on the world stage. How is a single American private compan  lapping around all of the EU seemingly effortlessly?</text></item><item><author>627467</author><text>Whenever I read anything about rocketry and Europe I&amp;#x27;m reminded of this quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: &amp;#x27;Goodbye, see you next year!&amp;#x27; [0]&lt;p&gt;European &amp;quot;strategic autonomy&amp;quot; in a quote.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-frustrated-with-spacex-for-driving-down-launch-costs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-f...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wasmitnetzen</author><text>The hard part are the engines anyway, which are still from the US (GE, Pratt &amp;amp; Whitney, CFM (that one is partly French)), and from the UK (Rolls-Royce).</text></comment>
<story><title>It&apos;s official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-official-europe-turns-to-the-falcon-9-to-launch-its-navigation-satellites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandyaboot</author><text>Europe is now the only large scale producer of well-built commercial aircraft.</text></item><item><author>tekla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so weird how increasingly irrelevant Europe is becoming on the world stage. How is a single American private compan  lapping around all of the EU seemingly effortlessly?</text></item><item><author>627467</author><text>Whenever I read anything about rocketry and Europe I&amp;#x27;m reminded of this quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: &amp;#x27;Goodbye, see you next year!&amp;#x27; [0]&lt;p&gt;European &amp;quot;strategic autonomy&amp;quot; in a quote.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-frustrated-with-spacex-for-driving-down-launch-costs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-f...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegrim000</author><text>Man the propaganda flies so fast, I don&amp;#x27;t know how we&amp;#x27;re going to survive the internet. Maybe instead of just shoveling the propaganda forward you could back up your wild claim with data? What are the odds of dying by flying in the current line of Boeing planes vs the odds in Airbus? Hint: It&amp;#x27;s lottery ticket odds both ways, it&amp;#x27;s the same order of magnitude both ways.</text></comment>