Boeing, Arianespace Battle To Launch Italian Satellites

In this article published by Defensenews.com and writer Tom Kington highlights the competition between the European and American Aerospace industry. Boeing and Arianespace are currently in the race to win the Italian government's approval to launch Italy's next Cosmo-Skymed satellite into orbit. The Europeans argue that European tax dollars that will be used to finance the launch should be payed to European companies. Italy has already chosen Boeing to launch two of it Satellites because Boeing has available launch times and Arainspace did not.