EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk’s Starlink expansion
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/26/eu-to-favour-european-satellite-services-to-prevent-musks-starlink-expansion
EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk’s Starlink expansion
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/26/eu-to-favour-european-satellite-services-to-prevent-musks-starlink-expansion
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Nice! SpaceX is lead by a fanatic Nazi.
Europe first! ❤️
Europe do not or barely have their own launch system.
Edit: cant tell if im being downvoted because people genuinely think Im wrong or just dont like the facts
(Facts being European launches 1% of mass to orbit now)
Europe is done with depending on the US. The amount of programs and laws established recently just to make that point extremely clear has been staggering.
The Americans sabotaged themselves in what was ultimately a relationship very favourable to US interests.
Completely aside from my feelings on Elon, competition is good, and having alternatives is great. If we have three or four good services we’re less susceptible to changing politics, both in countries and companies, and there’s a greater chance that technology will develop rather than stagnate.
And, of course, monopolies usually end up sucking.
if only the german telekom would get the note and the hint. worst telecommunications company ever.
This is the way!
Makes sense. Musk hates the EU. They can’t be reliant on him.
Good luck with that, EU space launches is only a fraction of US, and China for now. Even the poor and war-plagued Russia got better space launches ability.
Good. Hope that next it will be twitter/X, for possible election interference, and Tesla, questionable car safety records.
Quality and cost don’t matter when the CEO has demonstrated a desire to play politics. It doesn’t help that the country he’s based in has recently shifted heavily to authoritarian warmongering while not honoring the agreements they’ve made.
Good. Fuck Musk.
What happened to OneWeb? I know it’s an Eutelsat Product now, but didn’t it’s constellation get successfully launched already?
I still can’t even, Musk has literally done the nazi salute and people are supposed to trust him with their satellite internet and self driving cars??
The Kessler syndrome is only a question of when at this point.
Very sensible. The good news keeps coming.
did spacex prospectus warn that EU might step on his dick, neutering him?
or did he do that himself
If we’re going to do that we really need to stop feeding the Arianespace monster and actually encourage, fund and use more sprightly space startups.
Whoever they are.
We don’t even have a reusable rocket yet – how can we put thousands of satellite in orbit in anything like a commercially sensible manner?
We need to spend money on space!
Of course it is. Working with SpaceX is currently a political and security risk. That’s a no-go for EU. In my opinion, it’s a huge opportunity to Rocket Lab (originally from NZ) which is already working on opening it’s branch in Europe.
I’ve got Starlink it’s incredible, competition is always a good thing but good luck to those trying to compete!
The EU is making bad moves here
Prevent?
They literally took the moon module money to improve their satellite launch platform.
Eutelsat to the moon
Expansion? There are 10418 starlink satillites currently,
If every country, company and person with an idea does this, we will be fucked forever due to the kessler syndrome.
Can we just not?
Seriously though, EU will need a company that can do rocket recovery. Obviously they don’t want to rely on another nation’s approval for Space stuff, but at least TRY to catch up?
I mean, China is currently failing, but at least China is trying. The EU need to seriously develop rocket landing/recovery tech or they would get left behind.
Japan got a prototype rocket landed a while back. It would be sad if the EU end up falling behind Japan.
Rather liking this european first initiative
Good but we will be using SpaceX to launch the satellites though. Kind enough of Starlink to even permit that.
Cool, let’s see the prices and speeds they offer