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8727540 No.8727540 [Reply] [Original]

Get in here faggots:

http://www.arianespace.com/mission/vega-flight-vv09/

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>> No.8727545

HABBENING

>> No.8727550
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8727550

INB4 SURRENDER

>> No.8727551
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8727551

>bump

>> No.8727554
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8727554

Toasting

>> No.8727555
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8727555

GO VEGA

>> No.8727557
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8727557

>tfw your rocket is literally a toothbrush

>> No.8727560
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8727560

DID THEY CATCH THE RUD FROM SPACEX OR ARE THEY GONNA MAKE IT?

>> No.8727561

LE SURRENDERE

>> No.8727564
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8727564

THAT TWR THO

HOW CAN US EVEN COMPETE?

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8727567

>that cgi render

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING

>> No.8727568

CEDRIC VILLANI
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>> No.8727570

>>8727567
>2017
>no live stream from the rocket as it flies into space.

yuropoors

>> No.8727574

They dont' want to show us the flat horizon

>> No.8727578

euros are building carbon fiber solid propellant rockets lol what a buncha clowns

>> No.8727588

>>8727578
Strong and light.

>> No.8727599

>>8727588
SpaceX will be underpricing them soon enough
They just have issues with launch rate right now

>> No.8727609

>>8727599
Even so, there's politics involved and ESA will find ways to secure launches based on European missions regardless of price.

Either way it's great that all launch providers are innovating, competition is good for all.

>> No.8727686

Successful separation of Sat!

>> No.8728497

>>8727599
Price isn't the only factor. All-solid rockets can be stored and launched at short notice and in bursts of launches in rapid succession. (technically Vega isn't all-solid, but the small storable-propellant upper stage isn't going to take longer to get ready for launch than the payload)

>>8727609
>there's politics involved
More to the point, there are military applications involved. Vega is essentially an ICBM.

>> No.8728724

>>8728497
Vega is one of the only small launchers that is NOT derived from an ICBM! It is derived from the boosters of the Ariane 5. Japan's Epsilon is the same (H-IIAs solid booster), whereas the American, Russian, and Chinese small launchers are all derived from their ICBMs.