With Vega-C grounded and Ariane 6 not ready, the European Commission is considering agreements with U.S. companies to "exceptionally launch" its satellites.
the soyuz rocket programme, to take your astronauts and your equipment up into space. i mean, that was complacency, wasn t it? you can call it complacency. actually, it has served us very well for. not now. not now, but for more than ten years, we had another rocket. we have, actually, three classes of rocket, as we call it. the one that is transporting heavier satellites into space, called the ariane 5 today. then we have the one in the lower segment, which is vega. and then we have the medium segment, which is now soyuz, which was soyuz, i should say, which was serving us well. but, at the time of the invasion of crimea in 2014, we already have made decisions to develop another rocket called ariane 6, which will fly very soon, some time next year, to replace soyuz and also the ariane 5 rocket. so, actually, the ariane 6 was already developed, and decisions were made in iii to foresee that this change is necessary. well, ariane 6 is still
i mean, that was complacency, wasn t it? you can call it complacency. actually, it has served us very well for. not now. not now, but for more than ten years, we had another rocket. we have, actually, three classes of rocket, as we call it. the one that is transporting heavier satellites into space, called the ariane 5 today. then we have the one in the lower segment, which is vega. and then we have the medium segment, which is now soyuz, which was soyuz, i should say, which was serving us well. but, at the time of the invasion of crimea in 2014, we already have made decisions to develop another rocket called ariane 6, which will fly very soon, some time next year, to replace soyuz and also the ariane 5 rocket. so, actually, the ariane 6 was already developed, and decisions were made in iii to foresee that this change is necessary.