> that Americans startups are benefiting unfairly from SpaceX
Why is that unfair?
> Deep Blue, they're attempting recovery on their very first orbital launch
This shouldn't be a surprise. One would want to test as much as possible in each expensive launch. If the recovery failed, it would not impact(!) any other tests, so it is a very sensible idea to add it to the early tests.
- "Why is that unfair?"
Poor phrasing by me. "It's to be expected that European newspace will move slower than American startups, because their industry environment and institutional knowledge is poorer (than Americans')".