Re: >>> "What's wrong in COTS" (and HOW to do it BETTER) >>>

On Jan 11, 6:14 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or will fascism rule? Will only US COTS be allowed to compete? To me
that defeats the whole object.

- Ian Parker

Commercial spaceflight is NOT Global spaceflight.

The whole point of COTS is a US solution. It is a US program. It
is not fascism.

Europeans can do a COTS for their portion of the logistics and same
for the Russian

If there was a "global competition", the winner would be Progress
vehicle. ILS couldn't compete and neither could Ariane.

Also Proton and Ariane are heavily subsidized by the Russians and
Europeans and so any of their solutions are not "commercial" neither.
.