this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
29 points (87.2% liked)

World News

39151 readers
2951 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-signs-security-deal-us-launch-satellite-spacex-elon-musk/

@space

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The European Union on Tuesday signed off on the terms of a security deal with the United States that will allow it to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch its satellites.

Two diplomats told POLITICO that a deal allowing EU and European Space Agency (ESA) staff constant access to the launchpad and the first right to retrieve and store debris in the U.S. should the SpaceX rocket fail was approved Tuesday by national general affairs ministers.

As first reported by POLITICO, the European Commission agreed a €180 million deal with SpaceX last year to launch four of the Galileo satellites because of delays to the Ariane 6 rocket being built by ArianeGroup on behalf of the ESA.

After years of delays, Ariane 6 should launch this summer from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, but a first commercial mission won't be scheduled until after that.

The security deal is due to be formally signed with the U.S. next week and the plan is to ship the Galileo satellites, each weighing roughly 700 kilograms, to the U.S. on March 27, one diplomat said.

Should the launch fail, the ESA would have clearance to retrieve any debris, store the remains and ship it back to Europe, according to the agreed text.


The original article contains 462 words, the summary contains 208 words. Saved 55%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!