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2025 Update: Europe’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Efforts
Part One – Institutional Projects
May 23
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Andrew Parsonson
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2025 Update: Europe’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Efforts
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CNES After Baptiste
France is ESA’s largest contributor, committing just over €1 billion in 2025, approximately €120 million more than Germany, the second-highest…
May 9
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Andrew Parsonson
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CNES After Baptiste
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Will the first European on the Moon be Italian?
Under Artemis, the United States has pledged to return humans to the Moon, and Europe is part of that effort.
May 2
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Andrew Parsonson
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Will the first European on the Moon be Italian?
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April 2025
Is the IRIS2 programme already on life support?
Over the past two to three weeks, three seemingly significant obstacles have confronted Europe’s IRIS2 initiative to develop a sovereign secure…
Apr 18
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Andrew Parsonson
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Is the IRIS2 programme already on life support?
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Space is hard, but some heads are harder still
On 30 March 2025, Isar Aerospace made an inaugural attempt to launch its two-stage Spectrum rocket from Norway’s Andøya Spaceport.
Apr 11
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Andrew Parsonson
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Space is hard, but some heads are harder still
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March 2025
Inside the French Assembly's Hearing on European Human Spaceflight
On 13 March, the French National Assembly convened a hearing on human spaceflight to examine whether Europe should pursue the development of sovereign…
Mar 28
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Andrew Parsonson
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Inside the French Assembly's Hearing on European Human Spaceflight
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A New Era for European Defence and Space
In September 2024, ArianeGroup made a relatively small update to its website.
Mar 21
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Andrew Parsonson
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A New Era for European Defence and Space
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Low launch rates don't kill reusability
In March 2017, SpaceX launched a recovered Falcon 9 booster on its second mission for the first time.
Mar 7
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Andrew Parsonson
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Low launch rates don't kill reusability
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February 2025
Will IRIS2 save or doom Eutelsat?
After reporting its H1 2024 earnings on 14 February, Eutelsat’s stock price fell by 11% in one day to around €1.40.
Feb 28
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Andrew Parsonson
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Will IRIS2 save or doom Eutelsat?
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Who got there first and does it matter?
Since the USSR launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, space has been about firsts.
Feb 14
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Andrew Parsonson
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Does Europe Have an Off-Ramp from Gateway?
With Donald Trump’s re-election and Elon Musk heading the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, uncertainty reigns as news cycles scramble…
Feb 7
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Andrew Parsonson
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Does Europe Have an Off-Ramp from Gateway?
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January 2025
Countries Draw Battle Lines Ahead of European Launch Challenge
In an op-ed published in the French newspaper Les Echos on 28 January, MaiaSpace CEO Yohann Leroy argued that “the European Launcher Challenge must not…
Jan 31
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Andrew Parsonson
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Countries Draw Battle Lines Ahead of European Launch Challenge
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