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Super heavy-lift, frequent flights to space for Europe: Protein study results


In brief Last year, ESA commissioned a study to explore how Europe could develop a launcher capable of delivering 100 times more payloads to space than we do today. In-depth European companies were invited to propose designs for a rocket able to provide enough power and volume to launch huge payloads while keeping costs low and ensuring the environmental impact is kept to a minimum.

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