🇪🇺🇺🇦 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.”
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.