PARIS — The new president of rocket prime contractor ArianeGroup said that even if the company had all the technologies needed to reuse part of the Ariane 6 rocket, it would not adopt it because of the constraints inherent in the reusability business model.
Andre-Hubert Roussel, facing continued skepticism in Europe — even among French elected officials — about whether the new Ariane 6 can hope to compete against the SpaceX Falcon 9, said the SpaceX model relies on a large number of launches, year in and year out.
European governments . . .
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