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[–] Literati@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't really outsource to the US in that way. Launching with SpaceX is outsourcing to the US. Your other options are just picking a different US launch provider, which is still a private company. The US government isn't providing launch as a service in the way that SpaceX or other launch providers do.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

In fact the US launches 98% of their payload volume to space on SpaceX rockets at this point

[–] Waker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ah fuck... Thought nada or something could have their own rockets. But I get what you mean... Shame we don't have anything similar in the EU. One can hope... One day...