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Construction began in 2022. It plans to launch satellites.

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[–] Sturgist 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Breaking reliance on American launch sites will be a big deal.

[–] Quilotoa 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Although I suspect we are importing U.S. technology and brains to do this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Short term imports for long term self-reliance sounds like the right way to go to me

[–] Sturgist 7 points 2 months ago

@[email protected]

Exactly. It's like when the US took all the Nazi scientists. Except that it's pre-ww3.....so I guess it's more like when the US took all the German Jewish scientists before everyone else decided maybe letting the Nazis take all of Europe and slaughter millions of people was maybe a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

the French have a really good one that the US has used in the past in french Guiana, and its better bc of how close to the equator it is, so the rotation of the planet helps launch the rockets more.