There is “no guarantee” France’s ArianeGroup will continue to be Europe’s rocket launch company of choice according to the head of the European Space Agency, after ESA member states agreed to introduce more competition to the market.
Josef Aschbacher, the agency’s director-general, told the Financial Times in an interview that the decision in November to open the European launcher market to competition was a “game-changer”.
The next generation of launch would be done “in a very different way,” he said, acknowledging that this would put pressure on ArianeGroup’s owners, Airbus and Safran. “If they have a very competitive launcher then they are in the race. But there is no guarantee.”
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