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Europe Spaceworthy Again

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-for-patriot-missiles dept.

Soft writes "After last february's retirement of the Ariane 4 and last year's failure of the uprated Ariane 5 EC-A, an Ariane 5G ("generic") successfully launched two communications satellites tonight. Stories at SpaceflightNow and the BBC. Atlas, Delta, watch out, we're still game!"

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  1. That's fine by kriston · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You need not worry about too much competition from the Titan program unless you have heavy-launch capability. The US doesn't even have enough Titans to launch the next-generation spy satellites even if they were finished in time to replace the existing spy satellites. There is a good piece on this in a recent issue of "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" (http://www.bulletin.org/).

    Kris

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    Kriston

    1. Re:That's fine by kriston · · Score: 4, Informative

      Naturally it's actually http://www.thebulletin.org/.

      Kris

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      Kriston