Ich habe den Originaltitel des Artikels ergänzt, weil während der Analyse vom Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) ist interessant, soweit ich weiß, gibt es keine fertige europäische Konkurrenz für Starship.
Es gibt eine Reihe von Konzepten wie dieses, und Airbus, Thales und Leonardo haben letztes Jahr eine Absichtserklärung unterzeichnet, um einen führenden europäischen Akteur im Weltraum zu schaffen, aber ich sehe nichts innerhalb der EU, was die Kosten pro Kilo von SpaceX in Frage stellen könnte, auch nicht mittelfristig.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-europe-starship.html
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The title is misleading. This is not an „answer“ to Starship. The paper formulates a comparison and analysis what one option , based on the authors‘ previous work, could look like and how it would perform in comparison. Quote: „While Starship’s rapid turnaround combined with its immense payload may revolutionize large-scale space transport, the RLV C5 offers an effective path for Europe to independently develop partially reusable super-heavy launch capabilities.“
Nothing about this is official or presenting a plan. It is a scenario of „could be“ and thus definitely does not qualify as an „answer“, which the authors also do not claim. Considering that Starship is far from ready and so far even that Musk switched now from Mars to Moon as primary application, I am not sure what the „question“ is, which needs to be „answered“ in the first place. There is quite a bunch of gaps still to be clarified to „formulate a question“ I think.
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Arguably Starship is still conceptual…
Before all the concepts, they need to make sure that very strict regulations are set up first, and years of thorough discussions between every combination of nations are concluded.
Cost per Kilo is a misleading comparison anyway as these vehicles are rarely at full capacity. Small/Medium launch still has a critical role in future space missions.
This is a concept of a plan, ignoring the developments of the last 60 years, that would be just fine next to the early space shuttles.