Yesterday there was a very interesting study on Starlink Written by Milena Gabanelli, on Corriere della Sera. These do not give up Elon Musk. In the piece there was a chapter entitled “The monopoly of space”. Just read the piece and not stop at the titles to understand perfectly that it is not a monopoly granted by the state, nor a natural monopoly, but trivially Musk was the best of all and has won the challenge of the space rockets that bring kilos and kilos of satellites on the space.
The point is that yesterday the Lane He dedicated this huge page to Starlink and then only 20 lines to competitors, the Isar Aerospace. Who have made a rocket called Spectrumwho is German and is not the son of a minor God, no. The company has obtained funding for 400 million euros To launch this missile and behind the European Space Agency, NATO and Berlin were also behind. Except that, after working for eight years, at the first launch from a Norwegian airport, the missile fell after 30 seconds.
And look, even Musk’s missiles jumped into the air. Except that when it happened in Spacex, the front pages of the newspapers immediately spoke of the Starlink failure, it does not work, etc. etc.. And this despite the fact that in the meantime has put something like 7 thousand his satellites in orbit and an additional 13 thousand of other owners. If one of his missiles jumps, he wins a newspaper page; While if the only one made by the European Space Agency, by the Germans and the NATO, after 8 years of research, only 20 lines exploded. But you mortify you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llagenp2rxm
The story of the monopoly is a hoax. The point is that while Musk and the Americans thought about building the rockets, we did the slopes with the plastic cap to attach to the bottles. This is the principle. What has Europe did in the last 10 years? He tried to make a green Europethe plastic caps, the rules, the fuck, the GDPR, small and incredible fandonies and bureaucratic. Meanwhile, while we in 8 years have not been able to produce a rocket capable of getting into orbit, they advanced towards space. The monopoly of Musk there will be until someone scalzes them. And be sure, we will not be Europeans but, coincidentally, Chinese or competitors a little more serious than these EU pusillanimi who know only to have a chat and distinctive.
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