I told Clay Mowry years ago (when he was still with Arianespace) that
Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew.
On 4/17/23 11:03, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, Bill Bruner wrote:
A Transporter style rack on Starship will threaten the business models for all of the expendable and partially expendable artillery rockets - whether they are small, medium or large.
Any launch market big enough to make Starship financially viable -- it's not yet clear that such a market will appear on command -- will turn everyone's business models upside-down anyway.
Moreover, even without that, it's increasingly clear that the expendables and part-expendables are living on borrowed time. (Some of us have thought that for quite a while, but lately it's become a lot harder to argue with.)
Henry