🇪🇺🇺🇦 European government officials are working on a new, comprehensive package to increase defense spending and support Kyiv, - Berliner Zeitung
🇩🇪 Baerbock hinted that it could be ~€700 billion: “We will launch a large package that has never been seen on this scale before.”
Europe also fell behind significantly in everything space. SpaceX has cheap reusable rockets and shovels satellites into orbit by the bucketload.
Europe needs its own Starlink like space infrastructure.
EU only needs anti starlink guns and keep the sky accessible amd pristine
Space gun needs to be in space obviously.
F-15 in 1985: Am I a joke to you?
European companies like Nokia and Ericsson are sitting on a technology enabling direct to cell 5G from LEO satellites. Trials were made. You don’t need fancy terminals, regular cell phone works.
We have ESA and French made fantastic Ariadne rockets. Not reusable, true, but do you doubt if funding was not a problem the same engineers couldn’t make reusable rocket?
iMHO the problem is how can we compete with Starlink and SpaceX both extremely heavily funded by US taxpayers money. We can’t afford to burn money as fast as they can and not be profitable for a long time.
Falcon 9 flew 2010 for the first time. ESA’s Themis hasn’t had its first flight yet more than a decade later. Until this rocket is ready another few years will pass. That means europe is 20 years behind the USA in technology. China is ahead of Europe in space technology now.
Germany isn’t even part of Themis.
That’s the utter shambles of Europe’s independent access to space.
Ariane was once a world leader.