I mean, sure, you’re not wrong. It’s just that you see the glass half full while I see it half empty haha. You see the gain, I see the loss.

It just didn’t have to end this way. And it still kills the dream of seeing humans on Mars within the next ten years. Now, I’m thinking I won’t see such a thing in my lifetime. No one is going to try to do it in the foreseeable future, except maybe the Chinese in a few decades if they really set it as their next goal.

This is very sad… the Nazi CEO doesn’t actually care about space exploration. The Mars missions will probably not happen, and at this rate, he might even manage to kill his cash cow SpaceX.

Imagine that, thousands and thousands of employees gave it their best only for the dream to go up in smoke like that. Instead, they’ll work for dumb space groklinks, so that Musk can fill his deep pockets while spreading fascism on Twitter and funding his bigoted LLM.

What a sad reality we live in.

That would be a better outcome, but we all know he’s not going to do such a thing.

I wouldn’t know, haven’t looked at the exclusion zone, but it’s an idea.

I’ve looked at the logistic to go to Tanegashima Space Center. From Tokyo, it’s like a big plane to Kagoshima, then a small plane to the island, and then a bus (if you’re lucky) or an expensive taxi I guess. Of course, you could also take a ferry with a car from Kagoshima.
The problem isn’t transportation, it’s the fact that the best (and arguably only “worth the effort”) viewing spot is a park whose access is restricted to only a few hundred people during launch… and as usual for limited things in Japan, it’s a lottery system.

True, but I hope they’re patient!

IMO this sounds either just like another powerpoint, or a political maneuver by Maia Space to get more entangled with ArianeGroup in order to get money.

I mean, Maia Space is nowhere close to launching their vehicle, and they want to make a Frankenstein version of their booster for Ariane 6? That just sounds like a nightmare.

I hope I’m wrong…

I’m late, but happy new year!

Sad to see it fail… not the みちびき we wanted.