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On the occasion of SpaceX’s second takeoff on Friday November 17, the franceinfo Talk returns to Elon Musk’s place in space geopolitics.
Ludo Pauchant receives Isabelle Sourbès-Verger, specialist in questions of geopolitics of space and space policies, Emmanuel Botta, co-author of Elon Musk, the unprecedented investigation published by Robert Laffont and Philippe Hénarejos, editor-in-chief of Ciel et Espace magazine.
A second attempt more promising than the first?
On April 20, Starshipthe largest and most powerful rocket in the world, explodes a few minutes after its test flightfrom Starbase in Texas. Intended for trips to the Moon and Marsthis rocket from the company SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, will take off on Friday November 17 for a second test.
Despite the failure of the first takeoff, the company SpaceX still congratulated its teams on Twitter, now X. The objective of this “megarocket” is to “make life multi-planetary”, according to the company, namely allowing humans to live on planets other than Earth, like Mars.
Questioned on franceinfo, the executive chairman of Arianespace, a company that markets space launchers, warns of competition from Elon Musk and his company in the space sector. “Europe is a great space power”, he assures, “Europe must organize itself, be ever more agile and ever more innovative”, with a view to being sovereign in this area.