The space race and why two donkeys won’t make a horse

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Two European aerospace satellite operating companies, France’s Eutelsat and Britain’s OneWeb, are merging in a stock swap deal valued at $3.4 billion with the goal of setting themselves up as Europe’s answer to US leader SpaceX.

Believing that two European companies with the characteristics of Eutelsat and OneWeb are going to be able to rival Elon Musk’s company is like…