Europe Outlines Plans For Reusable Launcher Demonstrators

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The Prometheus engine, a key technology brick in ESA’s reusable launcher demonstration program, will undergo its first firing test in 2021.
Credit: CNES/BLACKBEAR
The Themis demonstration program for a future reusable launcher garnered relatively modest funding at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council last November, but it may be a seed for a turnaround in the continent’s space industry. The in-service Ariane 5 and in-development Ariane 6...

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