If that is true, then only because the company doesn't immediately have to fight Arianespace. It is France that has the strongest existing know-how and longest history in rockets, going further back than Arianespace. The gap between WW2 rocket development and now is so long that German history with rockets may as well not exist.
well they exist in both US and Soviet at the time
Meanwhile Germany had to deal with partition, reunification and now the biggest economy in Europe and also build an economic empire without firing a single shot. That’s why I said Germans would be the only nation that can actually execute the know how into being a frontier. Maybe France can actually learn a thing or two from the Germans on how to build an empire even after losing two world wars
A lot? I mean they were on the same level or above in the early 2000s.
Ariane was sort of the SpaceX of the 80s by commercializing and significantly decreasing the cost of space launches.
> from the Germans on how to build an empire
Yeah.. the German economy is in a remarkably great state these days.
And yet, all currently existing rocket designs capable of reaching (and staying in) orbit can trace their design back to the Aggregat 4 and the engineers (and slave labour) that built it.