/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16134636
No, they are bricks with wings.

>>15914804
ESA has experimented with flying bricks before.

>>15886024
I still stand by my statement.

>>12362022
Euro here, lets be clear.
ESA in THEORY can make crewed capsules&man rated rockets.
They have the knowhow&tech&industry to back it.
In REALITY, ESA is a clusterfuck of nations fighting over every crum of taxpayer money while the french wave their big ariana cock around and the italians blow shit up.
ESA could be so much more...

>>11841029
It happens.

>>11772052
ESA actually does a lot of shit, but they never follow through on it.
Too many nation dick waving going around, and the french are top dog in ESA.

Reminder to not be a fag and shit on everything not spaceX related, it's called spaceflight general, not spaceX circlejerk general.
But SLS is free game.

Is ESA going to do anything interesting this decade?
I read somehwhere they are going to make a falcon9 clone?

Not a rocket.

>>10624183
The nips are litterly firing copper rods at rocks in space and will have those samples back on earth in a year
And ESA also has a shitload of projects next to the ISS joint partnership, and unlike NASA where a majority of the research and projects gets canceled every 4 years esa actually finishes the work they start.
https://www.esa.int/ESA/Our_Missions
And india and china are pretty much backtracking the entire US spaceprogram staring in the 60's.
In the next decade they will catch up.