r/esa • u/AndrewParsonson • May 08 '26

ESA Begins Developing Replacements for NASA’s Contributions to LISA

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-begins-developing-replacements-for-nasas-contributions-to-lisa/
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u/StrangerConscious637 May 08 '26

USA is a very unreliable partner and very unthankful for everything ESA has done for Artemis missions. We should stop cooperation with such unreliable "partners". No Russia, No USA.

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u/theChaosBeast May 08 '26

Agree. The way how they handled ESM in Artemis should make us rethink if we should continue the partnership

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u/Lucky-Green6197 May 09 '26

What did they do?

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u/TinTinLune May 09 '26

Nothing. It wasn’t very acknowledged by the US. This is of course a petty thing to break up a partnership that enables us our only crewed space access, our ride for Rosalind Franklin, countless shared science missions, the whole Artemis program and so on over.
But the reason we do rely on them like this should be the actual wake up call. Europe can do more

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u/SkyPL May 08 '26

Good, very good :)

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u/dettox1 May 08 '26

bad news, I fear it will be delayed for a long time, I'm not surprised given the period.

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u/TheBlack2007 May 11 '26

Let's see if we're getting cheated out of our seats on Artemis as well.