European Space Titans Team Up to Take on Starlink 🌟
Hey space enthusiasts! 🚀 Big news from the cosmos: Europe's leading space companies are plotting something epic to challenge Elon Musk's Starlink! 🌌
Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo—some of the biggest names in the European aerospace scene—are cooking up a plan called \"Project Bromo\", named after an awe-inspiring volcano in Indonesia 🌋. The aim? To create a new joint space venture that could stand toe-to-toe with Starlink and shake up the satellite game!
This new European satellite champion would be a standalone company, kinda like the missile maker MBDA, which is already a success story owned by Airbus, Leonardo, and BAE Systems. 👏
Why the team-up? Well, with Starlink rapidly dominating low Earth orbit with its fleet of small, affordable satellites, Europe's space giants have felt the heat. They've traditionally focused on complex spacecraft in geostationary orbit, but the game is changing, and they don't wanna be left behind! 🚀💨
Leonardo's CEO, Roberto Cingolani, spilled some deets to Reuters, confirming that they're deep into technical discussions. He said, \"Satellites will become 75% of the space economy,\" highlighting just how crucial this move is. 🛰️💰
Though still in the early stages (and shh, it's a bit of a secret inside Airbus 😉), the talks are serious enough to have earned a cool code-name. But don't expect things to happen overnight; one insider mentioned that while merger plans are separate from upcoming job cuts, it could take years to fully launch this cosmic venture. ⏳
But one thing's for sure: Europe's space scene is gearing up for a transformation, ready to face the competition head-on and take the satellite sector to new heights! 🌠✨
Reference(s):
Space firms plot new European satellite venture to take on Starlink
cgtn.com
