Damn, ESA showing synthetic images of a hypothetical Starship-like Super Heavy-Lift Transport Vehicle on the Ariane 6 maiden flight livestream instead of Ariane 6 simulation images tells you a lot about where ESA's mind space is.

This must be hard to see for all of the Ariane 6 engineers at CNES, ESA, ArianeGroup, BeyondGravity, APCO, Sabca. Sort of a shame to ruin this day ...

@fj Not that strange, if there's still 3,5 hours to go until launch?
@sindarina Showing images that are clearly modelled after Starship on the Ariane 6 livestream is a weird choice when you're going on every TV show defending that the Ariane 6 modular design doesn't need a heavy-lift vehicle to be competitive.