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The European Space Agency has started a second reusable rocket initiative focussed on making the upper stages of the existing Ariane 6 rocket reusable. (europeanspaceflight.com)
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[โ€“] Lugh@futurology.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It is confusingly written, though my interpretation of this is that they are talking about a future variant of Ariane 6. I could be wrong, there are plans for something called Ariane Next in the 2030s, that will also be fully reusable, but this sounds like they intend it to happen this decade for the upper stage at least.

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks!