DIn the management room, the engineers stare on the display exhibiting the primary stage of Starship hurtling in the direction of the bottom, nearly in free fall. Suddenly, the reactors of this monumental piece of SpaceX rocket activate to sluggish its descent to 4 km/h and place it, suspended by its head, between the robotic arms of the launch pad.
On October 13, 2024, “science fiction became science, it’s a feat that we only imagined possible in around ten years,” mentioned André Loesekrug-Pietri, president of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative ( Jedi, the embryo of a disruptive European innovation company).
Just just a few months after the launcher’s first profitable flight in July Ariane 6the image is powerful. Where America innovates, Europe consults, reconciles and is already condemned…
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