EU governments’ refusal to book rockets in advance put them at risk of watching their missions go to non-European launchers

by Peter B. de Selding

BERLIN — European governments spent years trying to figure out how to stimulate demand for their Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket so that, even it it’s not profitable, its losses could be kept to a level acceptable to its contributing nations.

That script has been turn on its head. The challenge now is whether Ariane 6 can increase its production rate in time to capture the coming demand from European governments, especially in the next few years.

Here’s the problem: Europe’s biggest satellite owner/operator . . .

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