European companies like Nokia and Ericsson are sitting on a technology enabling direct to cell 5G from LEO satellites. Trials were made. You don’t need fancy terminals, regular cell phone works.
We have ESA and French made fantastic Ariadne rockets. Not reusable, true, but do you doubt if funding was not a problem the same engineers couldn’t make reusable rocket?
iMHO the problem is how can we compete with Starlink and SpaceX both extremely heavily funded by US taxpayers money. We can’t afford to burn money as fast as they can and not be profitable for a long time.
European companies like Nokia and Ericsson are sitting on a technology enabling direct to cell 5G from LEO satellites. Trials were made. You don’t need fancy terminals, regular cell phone works.
We have ESA and French made fantastic Ariadne rockets. Not reusable, true, but do you doubt if funding was not a problem the same engineers couldn’t make reusable rocket?
iMHO the problem is how can we compete with Starlink and SpaceX both extremely heavily funded by US taxpayers money. We can’t afford to burn money as fast as they can and not be profitable for a long time.