• Literati@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can’t really outsource to the US in that way. Launching with SpaceX is outsourcing to the US. Your other options are just picking a different US launch provider, which is still a private company. The US government isn’t providing launch as a service in the way that SpaceX or other launch providers do.

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      1 year ago

      In fact the US launches 98% of their payload volume to space on SpaceX rockets at this point

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      1 year ago

      Ah fuck… Thought nada or something could have their own rockets. But I get what you mean… Shame we don’t have anything similar in the EU. One can hope… One day…