TUPPER LAKE, NY — The European Space Agency (ESA) decision to select five startup launch service providers and reject seven in its first-round European Launcher Challenge (ELC) evaluation deals a serious blow to the companies now out of the competition and may be fatal for some of them.
But given the agency’s determination to reduce ELC to a manageable number as quickly as possible, the selection of Germany’s Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), MaiaSpace of France, Orbex
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