EU Commission: EU governments will need 14 Ariane 6 missions in 2031. Production now is 10 per year, so we have a problem

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — European Defence and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius clearly laid out the problem statement: In the coming five years, European government launch demand will exceed Europe’s current launch capacity.

Kubilius said the Commission’s 2028-2035 budget will include undefined funding for launches and that “access to space is the most decisive issue in space today.”

But in a Sept. 23 address to the 2nd Access to Space Conference, organized in Brussels by the Commission’s DG-Defis, Kubilius did . . .

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