The US government often takes the role of purchasing services and contracts, whereas the EU seems to favor more direct funding of corporate projects, like the one this article mentions, or the Airbus 380.
That said, I was talking about the sentiment around these activities, where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.
The EU needs to directly fund these project because otherwise they just don't happen. When the US produces many of these things just happen.
Starlink basically just fell from the clear blue sky into DoD lap. Leapfroging their own plans by about 4 generations.
This is because the US has more dynamic companies, a bigger internal market, that can access far greater level of funding, all the way from startup to grand investments.
> where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.
I'm not sure this is universally true. When it comes to military its the opposite. The US has broad support for the militarily, and in the military budget financed projects like GPS, like F22, F35 and so on. The Us military right now is planning multiple constellations in addition to extending Starshield.
In the US many of these things just happen out of the public view, internal to the govenrment. When in the EU this is all negotiated as part of bilateral agreements that are far more public.
s1artibartfast|1 year ago
That said, I was talking about the sentiment around these activities, where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.
panick21_|1 year ago
Starlink basically just fell from the clear blue sky into DoD lap. Leapfroging their own plans by about 4 generations.
This is because the US has more dynamic companies, a bigger internal market, that can access far greater level of funding, all the way from startup to grand investments.
> where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.
I'm not sure this is universally true. When it comes to military its the opposite. The US has broad support for the militarily, and in the military budget financed projects like GPS, like F22, F35 and so on. The Us military right now is planning multiple constellations in addition to extending Starshield.
In the US many of these things just happen out of the public view, internal to the govenrment. When in the EU this is all negotiated as part of bilateral agreements that are far more public.