[HyprMusic]

It's not that Europe has never developed the tech... the UK developed and launched an orbital rocket in the 60s/70s but it had to be shipped to Australia to be launched. I can't remember the specifics but I recall reading that Europe just isn't a geographically optimal place to launch rockets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

[qwytw]

> has never developed the tech

Well... an European company controlled > 50% of the commercial orbital launch market back in the late 80s and 80s.

That might have been tricky to achieve without developing the tech first.

[facile3232]

It's more than suitable if you don't care where the debris lands.

[lupusreal]

Like China.