Can Europe Compete in the Space Race?

Into Europe: The European Union and ESA are leading Europe’s efforts in Space. Europe has a state-of-the-art space industry and projects in Galileo and Copernicus, monitoring the Earth and providing a geolocation service. Yet due to the lack of a state subsidize through government contracts, the industry lacks large players and is falling behind. Can Europe step up to the task and compete in the increasingly competitive and militarized space?
0:15 ESA & Europe
2:12 European Space Ambitions (Galileo & Copernicus)
5:09 A Fragmented Space Industry
8:20 Space Militarisation
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[@cekan14]

I just discovered this channel and I'm loving it. We need more content about Europe.

[@IntoEurope]

Thanks! I intend on amking more, so stay tuned! :)

[@cekan14]

@@IntoEurope I sure will ;)

[@rayke0627]

Yea man. I know more about american stuff then european, great channel really informative

[@R1cardoo]

TLDR News EU, this is a channel that also speaks about Europe

[@447GHT]

really digging these analyses of european local and geo politics and economy. good supplement to Catalina Report

[@olbiomoiros]

Thank you for the European videos. As an EU citizen I am grateful that someone is teaching me this.

[@HansLandaNaranja]

Same. I don't get why we are barely getting any decent information about this kind of stuff.

[@R1cardoo]

TLDR News EU, this is a channel that also speaks about Europe

[@Thomas-jp1ni]

EU citizen? 😂

[@atruv2089]

@@Thomas-jp1ni yes?

[@ey6713]

There's no EU citizen you are a traitor for your country

[@binmanblog]

WOW Real success from an organisation within Europe and funded mainly from EU countries without being under the control of the European Commission. Europe had the chance to invest in "Skylon" which would have been the envy of the world just like the Anglo French "Concorde". Yes, state investment is needed but too much creates complacency which can't be sustained in fast moving market. Another great topic from "inter Europe" insightful and well balanced reporting. The is becoming one of my "go to" channels on you tube for interesting commentary.

[@gavinstacey8862]

Thanks for the reminder for "Skylon" and SABRE. According to wicki "For the first couple of decades the work was privately funded, with public funding beginning in 2009 through a European Space Agency (ESA) contract. The UK government pledged £60 million to the project on 16 July 2013 to allow a prototype of the SABRE engine to be built; contracts for this funding were signed in 2015." A combi, ramjet / rocket motor has a wider range of applications. I'm really enjoying the Into Europe channel too.

[@IntoEurope]

Thanks for your support!

[@97codycommander]

No need to get ESA mixed with EU. ESA has invested in Reaction Engines and Skylon, all the way back to 2009, and they are still doing it today. Skylon, if executed successfully, will be a major technological leap in propulsion technology. However, that will take time and money.

[@IblameBlame]

ESA's headquarters are located in Paris. Most ESA space missions are controlled at ESOC in Darmstadt, but not all. The Columbus module of the ISS is controlled in from a DLR (German aerospace agency) building in Oberpfaffenhofen. The price of a rocket doesn't mean much when not divided by payload to LEO say.

[@bekr3473]

A little math later the Falcon 9 comes in with 11273$/kg max 5500kg, Ariane 5 16513$/kg Max 10900kg and Ariane 62 15400$/kg max 5000kg or 64 10957$/kg max 11500kg.

[@debott4538]

@@bekr3473 Yes, the comparison here does work pretty well, since all three rockets operate in roughly the same weight class anyway. However, unlike the Falcons the Arianes are optimized for GTO instead of LEO. That means that Ariane 6 actually should be able to compete with Falcon Heavy when it comes to any launch beyond LEO, which is exactly what it is designed to do.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

ESA’s budget should be 6 times higher than it is.

[@PopescuSorin]

10x at least

[@GotMyTowel42]

6 times, 10 times, why not make it unlimited instead? projects would be funded when necessary and it'd be smoother, more efficient

[@puladan9296]

My Wife has worked and will work in the future with ESA ^_^ . I am proud of her!

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

Wow, me too as an European

[@haltdieklappe7972]

@@il_vero_saspacifico6141 I’m european hey guys I’m european look I swear I’m european I’m totally like you guys I’m a citizen of the european continent haha european

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

@@haltdieklappe7972 are you okay?

[@tomendruweit9386]

@@haltdieklappe7972 he is a patriot, and you are?

[@JeroenDoes]

It is really sad that the EU is lagging behind on almost every important front. Large tech companies? Don't have them, Space program? years behind, Any progress in uniting the EU? Stuck in a marsh for decennia now with no prospect of improving. We are failing on all important fronts.....

[@snare5903]

Stripe and Spotify are definitely large tech companies.

[@cuddlemuffin.9545]

Space program is severely underfunded to compete with NASA. Big tech, I'm not so sure but I'm sure it had something to do with that there isnt a silicon valley in the EU.

[@movingshapes]

Europeans are too afraid of risk and their business culture too often is too rigid.

[@Inquiring]

Snare No

[@jhonklan3794]

@@cuddlemuffin.9545 All of the top 17 Tech Companies are in the US or East Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_technology_companies_by_revenue

[@ImKevin]

I never get to hear about the ESA! It's so awesome that you bring it up! thanks so much! there is so much potential in the European Space Agency, seriously! the European Union simply needs to embrace its technology sector.

[@andrasadam8256]

It really must, because the current one is not only worthless and boring, but outright embarrassing. Europe almost has no technology sector, and literally no space sector. ESA just gives money to a single company (Arianespace, which is a ridiculous waste of money), and there is literally no other investment into anything else (unlike NASA, which provides a bunch of money to companies likes SpaceX, and a bunch of startups).

[@huldanoren951]

It's just so disappointing as a European passionate about space. We have so much potential and could easily compete with NASA if we only had the courage to.

[@cia5649]

@@andrasadam8256 NASA is as much of a embarrassment while spacex is a lucky story while projects like SLS ranks over budget and over schedule because of greed

[@sailor67duilio27]

ESA's funding is much lower than NASA's.

[@huldanoren951]

@@sailor67duilio27 FUNDING. We can increase its funding. State owned organizations don't have the same limitations as privately owned ones. Where could we get the money, you ask? By taxing rich people who only hoard the money, then we could put it into something useful, like space exploration.

[@RafaelW8]

Excellent video

[@IntoEurope]

Thank you!

[@mantasbarcys6509]

Lithuania wasn't shown on the map, as member of esa, yet when explaining funding, you showed it. :(

[@IntoEurope]

Yes, that isn't a mistake! Lithuania is an Associate member of ESA so they can contribute to projects! Cheers!

[@WolfyOfHonor]

@@IntoEurope Which in turn is garbage that we are not a member of ESA. I might personally go organize a protest for this bull*.

[@alexhammerbekk]

@@WolfyOfHonor easy,easy we need your lazers for our space nutria army :-)

[@Pharisaeus]

1. Darmstadt is where Space Operations Center is, not HQ (which is Paris) and it's also not the biggest ESA center, which is ESTEC in the Netherlands. 2. Comparison of Falcon 9 and Ariane 5 price is just stupid, considering Falcon 9 price is given for 5.5t to GTO, while Ariane 5 ECA takes 11t, so... twice the payload! Can you spot the issue? Twice the payload, twice the price....

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

[@debott4538]

- Randall Patrick Munroe Nice quote. I didn't know that before. :)

[@Dragon-eu8cb]

We might be able to renact a mini version of that with Europe compared to the US, Russia and China.

[@gameoob5604]

I love these videos, so interesting!

[@nashtags]

It's good that ESA is *not* an agency of the EU. And it's better if it stays this way. It shows Europe can also advance without the EU patronage in every single field and it allows for example brains and money from «outside» of the EU for example Switzerland being quite active, paying quite a lot «per capita», and being an historic member.

[@janschmitz4006]

Charles University in Prague just announced building of new faculty. The Space Faculty. It will be open before 2030.

[@fallendown8828]

And SpaceX will land humans on Mars before 2030. Good job Europe, you are just soooo left behind

[@janschmitz4006]

@@fallendown8828 at least we’re not the first, and the worst at everything important 🤣

[@mikicerise6250]

Before 2030!? Goodness... are you sure it's not too fast? xD

[@varangianguard4726]

@@janschmitz4006 how is the us the worst they have the most succes in space, it, microchips, biotech etc

[@za.monolit]

esa will never get passed nasa lmao

[@tomendruweit9386]

who knows, they might once it is seen as importand enough

[@tomendruweit9386]

@@account-369 ah yes cause every space agency founded after NASA is a ripoff, cause every federation in the world no matter how different its entire history is is a ripoff of the US cause they are a federation of states and cause using stars to represent Country is such an uncommon thing or that blue and gold mix well together is so unknown. The US is a laughing stock, Europe is an international diplomatic as well as economic and scientific powerhouse and if you are ashamed of it then you are welcome to leave and become american. Good luck with no paid maternity leave, barley any workers or consumers protection laws, no public healthcare, in an declining nation that is basically run by cooperations and hate.

[@AS898-h3u]

@@tomendruweit9386 well said. As an american I say many of us look to Europe has a better quality of life and actually care for their citizens, although I am grateful for being in the US it definitely lags behind in many aspects especially with quality of life

[@t__v_____290]

Falcon 9?? wait untill you see Starship. we are sooo far behind we might never even be able to catch up when Starship is realized withinin the next 5 years

[@ЕвгениГеоргиев-т1я]

Landing on another planet is a Solid result for sure.

[@aaronknittel8327]

cool videos, my friend :)

[@IntoEurope]

Thank you! :)

[@apotato5567]

Long live the European union

[@tomendruweit9386]

Long live the European Federation!

[@linusjklett]

Your channel is great. Finally there’s some stuff about Europe

[@RoScFan]

The militarization of space is one of the world's greatest tragedies!.

[@redtigergaming1467]

exploring space and studying about the galaxy is not militarization talking for now in this timeline.

[@fabiandanesti1497]

Comprehensible

[@Joker-yw9hl]

It was inevitable though

[@saellenx3528]

@@redtigergaming1467 same thing people were saying when Countries were exploring new Continents. That ended with Colonialism and slavery...

[@rogofos]

space race is the embodiment of being so focused on wether you can you never stop to think on whether you should

[@wordofswords5386]

5:48 and there goes all the credibility I thought this channel had 😂😂

[@Argysh]

Thanks for the effort and the general idea is well transported. However, since you clearly put effort in, please also try to get the basics right.... E. G. Esoc in Darmstadt is not the esa HQ, that's in Paris. Esoc is the ground control centre.

[@Venom96930]

I don't think it's possible since EU is using less money to develop space programs than countries like USA, Russia or soon China.

[@sdprz7893]

@Wake No. doesn’t mean it’s not very very important

[@vincenzodelledonne8622]

Esa has the 2 budget in the world

[@Venom96930]

@@vincenzodelledonne8622 But don't use it.

[@ten_tego_teges]

Nobody knows how much China is actually spending since much of their budget is military-grade tech and hence classified. Could be far more, could be far less than ESA. Roscosmos budget is 3x smaller than ESA.

[@franknwogu4911]

@@ten_tego_teges well russia has experince in space

[@DevilTidusX]

What you just said about space race can literally be applied to nearly every innovation sector, EU seriously needs to change their mindset, or we will be left behind

[@hughfergusson9544]

Sooo good

[@platin2148]

The thing is it turns out that it’s not so cheap to reuse the rockets compared to not doing that. And for Ariane i think it would make sense to not just bet on one company.

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

The ESA needs to hurry up fast too. The US are going fast in the space race both NASA and a lot of US private companies like spaceX and blue origin are pushing space into another level right now and are leaving everyone between.

[@ooferdoofer7869]

we're really doing another space race now huh, popcorns ready.

[@KhaalixD]

Great video!

[@thpt7632]

"Copernicus: Europe's eyes on earth" sounds familiar

[@cn8299]

The problem with the ESA is that it's a big entity who "wants to" foster smaller private companies but wants to make sure they never get big enough to eat their lunch. Meanwhile, in the US, NASA and the military are feeding their private sectors whole-heartedly and SpaceX having such huge ambitions and actually pulling it off has attracted wide public acclaim unlike ESA launches which happen in South America, the European public doesn't get a chance at all to actually see the fruits of their labor so for 10% more efficiency, they sacrifice 100% of visibility and for some people, if you're not showing your work, you may as well not be doing anything at all. Chances are SpaceX is about to get Starship flying (successfully) before Arianespace even launches a single test flight. ArianeSpace is now also YEARS behind on Ariane6 and they say they won't have a reusable rocket until after Ariane6 retires which is over a decade after it goes into use. By then, SpaceX could be on its 5th generation Starship and flying hundreds of Starship missions to the Moon and Mars. The ESA had a chance to be much closer rivals had they took SpaceX seriously and began reusable rocket development back in 2014 but this is what happens when you have a bunch of old bureaucrats in suits who are too afraid of change.

[@diogomarcelino5499]

I cannot state how grateful I am for these videos as a European

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Love ESA as a Brit. Not surprised at all though that the European Commission/EU is trying to expand its own power and interfere with ESA though

[@ricplays5905]

My uncle works for ESA and i hope i'll work there too

[@wunce2243]

Go for it

[@maxklinger1494]

go for it buddy. rooting for you!

[@mukkaar]

Arming space is pretty scary, it's much like nukes. Except you don't even need second party to set up chain reaction Of destruction.

[@ogaduby]

5:47 Renewable Rocket Technology 🙂

[@Benzknees]

In a word, no. Commercial satellite companies will always outcompete bureaucratic public entities.

[@vincentmuller1430]

While I love you talking about ESA I just wished to provide some corrections; The Headquarters of ESA is in Paris, not Darmstadt. Darmstadt hosts ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre from where satellites and spacecraft are controlled (Also includes planetary mission control, Earth Observation such as Copernicus and Space Defence).

[@Diegomax22]

Il est à Paris car sans nous les Français, l’Agence Spatiale Européenne de son vrai nom n’aurait pas lieu d’être. (Merci à la France d’avoir colonisé et garder la Guyane pas vrai ?)

[@ondrejnejedly9455]

I really enjoy these videos about European political and even other landscapes. Keep up the good work, mister. A bonus fact: Czechoslovakia (Now split into Czechia and Slovakia) was the third country to have a man in the space after the USSR and USA. His name was Vladimir Renek and his rocket launched from the USSR as a part of an Soviet aligned country program called Interkosmos, his rocket launched on March 2nd in the year 1978 together with a soviet captain Alexej Gubarev. ESA also claims that he is the first European cosmonaut. He even was in the European parlament with one of the diplomatic sides. (It's little bit shamefull, but it was actually the KSČM, the remnant party of KSČS, which led the country when it was under communism. He was at least "nestraník" = not a member in the party)

[@Jayvee4635]

Does that mean Polen can into space?

[@ephraimboateng5239]

Oh i didn't know we (Canada) were partners with Europe with Space stuff. Thats cool!

[@johnjeff9206]

Yes you help make arm

[@jakemorgan7242]

does the united kingdom still fall under membership of ESA now that weve unfortunately left the EU? I want to be an astronaut but dont really want to join the UK space agency

[@erikempire318]

”There are more pressing issues then space exploration” there is no other activity activity then space exploration that have given us more tech and solutions that are useful here as well. Some scientists say that 98% is directly linked to space exploration.

[@mikicerise6250]

Just wait until you see what the "more pressing issues" are according to Europeans. Half of them are football-related.

[@theamici]

This makes the assumption that the minds used for space exploration technological development, couldn't have been used better for solving more immediate tangible problems, such as curing AIDS and cancer. The EU is also doing a lot of very important scientific work in material sciences with their graphene projects. Just because a project is "flashy" doesn't mean it's more useful. Imagine if the EU had invested in space projects instead of working to give humanity a new supermaterial to work with, what a total waste that would've been.

[@maxklinger1494]

@@theamici Yeah I can totally see a MechE working on cancer research /s

[@kebabmega6349]

Yeah like unemployment, debt, energy crisis, and many more issues

[@Maia_Cyclist]

Btw micro satélites spaceport planned in Azores

[@kodjoosiemszesc5471]

Very interesting look into the subject. Maybe EU could fpund a new agency if ESA thrives on independence. Maybe competition between the two is the missing ingredient in making European space exploration faster

[@andrasadam8256]

ESA barely does anything, and sucks horribly at letting people know of the few things they actually do. They seriously need to reevaluate how they invest into what companies, because right now there is literally no investment whatsoever into any new companies that wish to join the space race. Arianespace gets all the funding and that's it. SpaceX couldn't have gotten where it is without initial support from NASA, but no such conditions exist in Europe. Same as in the tech sector.

[@ianwoods5656]

Euro Space Agency delivered James Webb into space because no one else could

[@nevreiha]

POLAND CAN INTO SPACE?

[@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926]

Yes

[@lionelfully]

These guys have a Patreon: www.patreon.com/IntoEurope

[@matteoinghilleri3559]

Chek out the spaceport of Grottaglie!

[@invest_in_dogecoin6398]

God bless the European people, and may Europe be forever majority European

[@nelsonsoares3725]

ESA: So much potential... such lack of focus.

[@fallendown8828]

Yes. They really need an hard goal and work on that like a Venus lander or Titan lander idk they just can not sit there and only launch sattilites

[@georgevavoulis4758]

No excuse for ESA to be so far behind. ESA should have their own version of space station , heavy lift booster rockets etc .

[@lorisperfetto6021]

Well Italy is really good in space

[@charles_4362]

1:22 the headquarters are in Paris if I am not mistaken

[@EmptyNullified]

Excellent content!

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

I just think they should invest more on ESA

[@fallendown8828]

And i think they need real goals to spend their money probably because they don't have a good one. Look at NASA and SpaceC or China. NASA wants an Moon Base, SpaceX wants an Mars City and China wants a space station of their own. They have good goals so they are doing something while Europe is just doing some sattilites and thats it, even single countries doing sattilites! Thats not a good goal, go make a Venus lander or something

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

@@fallendown8828 Venus is not a good option. a. Maybe work with Elon in the base on Mars would be a good goal. Or develop a spacial force (even thought I doubt that would happen). Invest more in inovation and specially ESA should be a EU's goal

[@fallendown8828]

@@joaquimbarbosa896 Nuclear rocket may can be possible and it is not done yet, i mean Blue Orijin is working on that but i doubt they will ever finish that project on their own. Also working with Elon and send their own crew to Mars with SpaceX would be really the best call because you are not doing the hard work but giving them your money and people and help their already going project a boost (which is actually really good for both because even they started the project, they still need the work forge to achieve the 1 Starship launch a week and now they are geting behind) and take credit for it. Have a Starship full of people from ESA on Mars.

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

@@fallendown8828 Yhea, or maybe a warpe drive. Or a way to start space mining Or at least do like Japan and try to collect solar energy outside the atmosphere where it produces more (because recives mroe light) and for more time (nothing to stop the light from coming). And than send it as radiation to the Earth where the energy can be stored or used. Considering that ESA is just in the Services, doing business that give money and are usefull to the people in the EU in the short term, they could AT LEAST to that. About the SpaceX thing, ESA has many good emgeers, they would probably build a better starship with ESA's help. Elon gains efficiency and ESA gains experience from SpaceX

[@ten_tego_teges]

@@fallendown8828 You realize that more likely than not, all you weather forecasts are powered by Copernicus? The benefit of high-res, near real-time weather monitoring is immense, particularly in the age of rapid climate change. Galileo is a strategic investment for the EU and offers superior precision to any other geo-location system. Exploration is noble, fascinating and sexy for the general public, but it's the Earth-monitoring projects that provide real utility to the public. The fact you think its "not a good goal" speaks more about your ignorance than anything else.

[@salehwahib3749]

There are more private companies such as: Isar Aerospace, HyImpulse Aerospace etc.

[@juliane__]

In terms of private investment, the EU set up an investment fond of over a billion this year. So europe finally moves in the class of us investment.

[@ethribin4188]

In short. Can? Yes. Want to? No. To expensive.

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

I hope ESA gains human spaceflight aspirations beyond piggy backing on NASA and ROSCOSMOS missions. Wouldn’t it be great to have an ESA base on the Moon or Mars?

[@RedLancerMoto]

That's extremely ambitious haha.

[@maxwalker1159]

Interesting

[@mikicerise6250]

No. In fact, the answer to any question starting "Can Europe" is likely no. Next question?

[@wordofswords5386]

Why is it ok for war to be on earth but not space? Isnt earth better than space? Earth is better than space, there is nothing in space except some sattelites.

[@Gnefitisis]

Very interesting analysis. I'm pretty familiar with ESA with regards to their projects, but I didn't know anything about its organizational structure and economic allocations. I can really see how that informs it's programs and goals. I'm very hopeful for European space tech. We need a stronger EU, especially now that the whining British are out.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

I’m British and I agree with you completely. Hopefully I annoy some Brexiteers with my t-shirt that says “Still European”.

[@Gnefitisis]

@@Volatile-Tortoise Yeah, I realized that Brexit and Johnson are Britain's Trump. A disgusting xenophobic phase.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

@chess boi Indeed, the “Special Relationship” was always a one-way affair. Even my father’s generation are slowly waking up to that fact at this point. These transatlantic fantasies are as infuriating as they are delusional, our real friends and allies are on the continent as far as I’m concerned, yet my nation has been so rude and dismissive to them.

[@ImStillWoody]

MERICA🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@xyleblack2545]

You've been very generous regarding Mr. Musk. 😬🙃

[@gabecodina]

Wow - he just said a benefit of the spaceports location in Kourou helps to avoid accidents near Europe. So Europe is exporting accidents to its former colonies?

[@IntoEurope]

French Guyana is not a colony, it is an integral part of France, that is located next to the equator (which allows to increase payload) and on the west coast of South America (which is on the right side to send rockets from, since due to the earth's rotation, the rockets fly away from the mainland). You don't want to send off rocket near dense population centers, so Kourou is the perfect place to send them, since any accident would fall in the ocean.

[@арефнар]

Europe as one body politic seems really disturbing. This is not what ww2 ended with.

[@leonardlongen3351]

How is it disturbing?

[@арефнар]

@@leonardlongen3351 the sheer size of the encroaching "brussels" politicians who have never run any private owned business. Do you chaps know what sovereignty is? Have you gone mad there in Europe?

[@leonardlongen3351]

@@арефнар mad? Do you know whats mad? Thinking that it would be possible for any country in the EU to make an impact on thr world stage without the others, while we are surrounded by super powers. Even we in Germany would not have our strong position if we still used the Deutsche Mark. Without an economic union such as the EU, Europe would not be the powerhouse it is today. "Never run a business". You don't seem to know our politicians. And talking about beeing mad. I would most certainly like for you to explain to me what the meaning behind your "This is not what WW2 endet with." comment was. Would you like us Europeans to hate each other. Without the EU we would not have open borders, free travel and free trade. I could start living in France, the Netherlands, Poland or Portugal without a problem in the world. So to answer your question. We are not mad. We are free.

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Where can i access that Free Data?

[@paulpark1170]

Gees…. I didn’t know Canada was in Europe….how did that happen… did Nasa give them the cold shoulder or what…

[@Hession0Drasha]

It has the money and the expertise, it just needs the will.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

It doesn’t have enough money..NASA’s budget is 3 times higher than ESA’s, and NASA should be receiving at least double what it currently gets.

[@pits.893]

@@Volatile-Tortoise He means that the EU has the Money to invest in space... But there is no political will to do so, and this is Why ESA Is underfunded

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

@@pits.893 Ahh thanks. Yeah, this is a sad state of affairs. The Apollo program paid for itself seven times over with all the benefits that it spawned. So even if one doesn’t care about scientific discovery or the future survival of humanity, from a purely pragmatic financial point of view it’s still worth investing in space. Yet people are short sighted.

[@pits.893]

@@Volatile-Tortoise Europe is a complicated place. It will need some time to figure itself out before being able too worry about the distant or even mod term future

[@EasternVikingTradeCompanyJSC]

meanwhile Russia is constructing a real spaceship with nuclear power source and next-gen engines for Solar System colonisation, good luck EU with you green gay solar panels lol

[@patrickdempsey4034]

The eu look like they could not compete in a donkey race at the moment

[@Leicht_Sinn]

Well better then some other contries i would say ;D

[@deivydasbaksa3324]

Last time Europeans did something like this they were called imperelists

[@michielstreefland7711]

Poland can into space

[@TheAbdominalSnowman]

Nice video, little note tho, pretty sure that ESA's HQ is in Paris, France, as that site is literally named ESA HQ.

[@mickmickymick6927]

millions of euro from the government to help them innovate? I presume this money will go directly into the garbage heap. Even highly innovative government funded projects like the internet or GPS weren't just 'here's a ton of money, go innovate', they were specific attempts to solve specific problems. It would be more useful if the EU countries removed restrictions from their own economies and reduced barriers between doing business across the EU. Government spending on R&D is good but won't bring the sea-change the EU needs. For that we need less incompetent, less nationalist leaders and policies.

[@salehwahib3749]

If UK and Switzerland were in EU. Then ESA would do more better.

[@cn8299]

The UK and Switzerland ARE in the ESA... ESA has nothing to do with EU membership. They're two completely different things.

[@salehwahib3749]

The problem is Europeans don't focus more in business and science exploration. They always think about fooding, living, independency, security, entertainment...

[@welcome33333]

BTW who are the 29 idiots who DISliked this video???

[@jeroenjager8064]

Why not "Help" instead of "compete" ?

[@artelislt]

Because competition forces each rival to make things better thans another. Example - wars, if not wars, we would be less advanced than now

[@LordSignur]

i can barely hear your french accent. just when you spell french city names. wow.

[@alphonsobutlakiv789]

If we put positionabul mirrors on all these satlites, can we beam the sun down where ever we feel like, and at any time of day?

[@tictac2therevenge291]

3:47 fuck space all my slovakian homies hate space

[@baronvonjo1929]

1:30 Wow... to "avoid population centers in Europe" But let's ignore the one here in South America. What is wrong with them?

[@IntoEurope]

Rotation of the Earth means rockets go Eastwards so in South America, they go off onto the Atlantic. In Europe, they would just go over the continent.

[@baronvonjo1929]

@@IntoEurope Thank you for clarification.

[@marcos.2373]

hey bro nice video! but what about the italian program featured with nasa for landing to the moon? the astronauts would be italian (Parmitano and Cristoforetti) while the rockets american, what is the role of esa?

[@IntoEurope]

As far as I know and my research into the topic has shown, ESA is developing part of 'Orion' (which I mentioned shortly in this video), the future moon lander. In exchange, it will receive 3 flights to 'Gateway' (an upcoming moon orbital station built by the US), and maybe even a trip to the surface. If you have the name of the Italian program, I'd be curious to read more about it!

[@marcos.2373]

@@IntoEurope yes you're right, but the name I found is ARTEMIS and it concerns about the Moon gateway in wich there Will be a strong collaboration between nasa and esa. Here an article, it's in italian but maybe google can translate :) www.google.it/amp/s/www.agi.it/estero/news/2020-11-19/artemis-italia-nasa-luna-spazio-fraccaro-asi-10344730/amp?espv=1

[@dennisengelen2517]

Well no country here is as big as the USA, China or Russia in both population and size and money goes to the people instead of to prestige. Also: We aren't the Holy Roman Empire, Frankish Empire or Napoleonic Empire which could do this stuff under one government, but an economic alliance of many small countries so I don't really get why the world wants to see us as a united federal body.

[@Lemonz1989]

People may dislike the EU, but as a whole, it has immensely benefitted European citizens, since its inception. People alive now don’t understand how conflict ridden Europe was in the very recent past. Now it seems insane to think of two European countries going to war. As for ESA - let the other countries get the bragging rights for the major projects like Mars and/or moon habitation, while ESA develops projects to benefit the European population, like an independent GPS system, Earth surveillance, climate programs and engineering and technology research.

[@burnsyy9119]

Russia : Let me introduce myself

[@Lemonz1989]

@@burnsyy9119 Haha yes, but at least it isn’t the UK, France and Germany again. 🤪

[@vadaing394]

You say that the Falcon 9 is cheaper than Ariane V & VI. It's true, but Falcon 9 can carry just between 8,5 and 9 tons to low Earth orbit while Ariane VI will can carry th doble.

[@10Tabris01]

Also, the Arianes are purpose built for delivering stuff into geo-stationary, while the Falcon, IIRC, only does LEO

[@colincallaghan9476]

oh and its not reusable

[@Leicht_Sinn]

@@colincallaghan9476 well let's look at the price of falcon 9 has it reduced ? No it has increased Reusable rockets aren't that cheap to keep maintained and the risk of failure is higher when you launch it again There is a nice video about it by thounderfoot why the falcon 9 really isn't that huge of a leap when we look at the price

[@andreikoto4810]

The problem is nobody knows how much Falcon9 really costs. There's no open information about it, and there's always NASA's contract behind every launch.

[@maxklinger1494]

Falcon 9 expendable can put 22 tons into LEO whilst Falcon 9 reusable (droneship landing) approximately 15,6 tons (which is the weight of 60 Starlink satellites)

[@obisr5111]

Europe, as a unit, is not mature for space programs. Noy yet. And as the eu looks today and according to the progress of the issues, Europe will never be mature.

[@ja1111112]

UwU

[@chickenbee7763]

True

[@beaverprod.]

Kawaii

[@beatrix1120]

OwO

[@emielverwaeren6550]

are you french?

[@martins336]

Why not to use one of the Azores islands for space launch and focus more on space mining?

[@theamici]

I feel like there's potentially a lot of challenges we need to face first before starting to do space mining. But that said, creating an international space mining corporation, whose surplus funds could be diverted to the United Nations for instance (a neutral third-party). Would be a good start for space mining. It would have great economic benefits from pooling our resources, it would accelerate human technological development, and it would avoid space mining starting off as a conflict.

[@Geshiko-GuP]

a channel all about europe? "happy european sounds" and this video is about one of my favorite topics! ..SPACE!

[@chrysopylaedesign]

I love this robot........ "...Global Positioning....or GPS for short." LOL !!!....Really !!! GPS ??? thanks for telling us that !!!!

[@robertlaabs5066]

Informative, Thank You! JESUS Created the Heavens & the Earth! HE Is LORD!

[@drhubblebubble7]

I have conflicting issues with all space agencies. I don't like the nationalist pride of the USA, however I desire much more about the focus of human exploration in space. There shouldn't be any sort of space race, especially when there are militaristic motives of dominance in the background, because it's purely primative and disappointing. I won't even consider humanity spacefaring until there's a worldwide collaboration. The cosmos has easily proven to us that the environment is extremely dangerous, thus I think nature is testing our ability to all work together. I think human space exploration should be innovative since it does bring motivation to the next generation, it brings a poetic connection between us and the universe, and the technology invented for these missions spill right back to economic stimulation. I think your video is very informative and I'm thankful the algorithm brought me to you and reading the comments, and I think because of this information, I'm deciding to not pursue a career in ESA (it wasn't my primary goal, but it was something to consider). I'm not even a European citizen, so my voice doesn't even reflect the overall European standpoint.

[@halti5233]

The space race should be fought by private companies that are worried more about profit than national pride instead of governmental agencies that strongly push for a monopoly in space for their respective countries. A space race can kick start a chain reaction of more and more investors, leading to a market increase and more exploration.