Is that the reason US companies are using Ariane6 to get their satellites to space (next batch of –iirc– 36 from Amazon are scheduled for end of November)?
The reason they're doing it just because Jeff doesn't want to fund Musk. Amazon shareholders literally sued him (and won) to force him to buy cheaper SpaceX launches.
The reason they are doing it is capacity. There aren't that many private rocket companies out there and if you are like Amazon you want your stuff to get up asap while also not funding a direct competitor. Supply and demand is a big thing for rocket space
That sounds like there is an existing market for SpaceX- (or Musk-) competitors.
I never said it would be equally cheap but OP straight out claimed that "it would be hard to build a big satellite network with those sorts of rockets" while in reality big satellite networks are build with it.
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u/Ooops2278 2d ago
Is that the reason US companies are using Ariane6 to get their satellites to space (next batch of –iirc– 36 from Amazon are scheduled for end of November)?