ESA Sees 12 Ariane 6 Launches Doable In ’29, Effort Needed For More

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PARIS—Europe should be able to boost Ariane 6 rocket launch cadence to 12 flights a year with a manageable level of investment in 2029, but will need to make more difficult decisions to push rates higher. “What we want to do now is to go first to 12,” Géraldine Naja, the European Space Agency’s head...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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