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Originally posted by tw
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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
... This is a European rocket taking off, and I think it's pretty cool because it's so different-looking. We've seen so many images of American rockets and so rarely see other countries' rockets.
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More interesting is that these French rockets are the world leaders in commercial satellite launches - not America.
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Agreed- the US has invested so much time, effort, and pride in the Space Shuttle in the past 30 years that it has fallen behind the ESA in the development of inexpensive, decent disposable rockets to put commercial sattelites into orbit.
I believe they still use a Titan variant at times,
Z