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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I love the fact that the EU, China and Russia, Japan and Israel are sending scientific probes to other off world locations. It does not need to be all USA. It is much like the F1 racing in recent years, Mercedes is the clear and undisputed leader. No other team is close to the same level. Budget, and hiring the top engineers is the only real difference. No magic, just the best engineering.
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Russia is not doing a ****. But SU did some very impressive things, landing on surface of Venus is one of them. EU is also mostly building probes, as launch capability is getting much cheaper nowadays thanks to SpaceX.
Ariane project should be closed and restarted.