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How the Corruption of Romanian Government Agencies Led to the Creation of Rockets That Anyone Can Now Buy
General Astronautics announced last week that it started selling rockets with a design based on the ecological and extremely cost effective EcoRocket technology developed by ARCA in the past years.
For ARCA, to make its rocket technology commercially available is unprecedented as this served so far only for company’s internal applications.
Why this decision though, after 24 years of keeping the technology in house?
The reasons are mainly related to the Romanian Government’s agencies corruption and collusion.
In the fall of 2021, ARCA scheduled the launch of its first orbital rocket from the Black Sea, aiming to make Romania the second European Union nation able to launch it’s own satellites after France.
But, back then, the launch clearance was rejected with 25 minutes after the deadline of launch window activation.
The same happened again in the spring of 2022 when the launch clearance was again rejected by actions of Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Behind these was a collusion between the Civil Aviation Authority, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Romanian Space Agency that even took a newspaper long…
