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by kuschku
3061 days ago
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Prometheus is finished, production on the prototype has started, and the first flights of the prototype are expected in 2020. If Arianespace follows that schedule, they’ll be a decade late compared to SpaceX, but still ahead of all other competitors in this. |
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Prometheus or not, Ariane 6 is an expendable rocket in any form that currently or will soon exist. By the time they figure out the very basics of first-stage reusability on a launcher that is roughly equivalent to Falcon 9 FT, SpaceX will have BFR ... likely for quite a while.
At least their reusability plans are not a joke like ULA.