Kosmic KrisIt’s the last launch of the Ariane V rocket tomorrow. Ariane VI has taken too long and is too expensive. But, I will dwell a while longer on the workhorse that has been Ariane V. In a world where the launch market is not a good money maker, V has been excellent.
The first lesson I learned about the space industry is that it is the downstream stuff where the money is. There’s no money in upstream. True now as it ever was.