Commercial launch service providers on March 11 raised the possibility of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket becoming American, the international Sea Launch becoming Russian and the high-cost Japanese H-2A rocket becoming cost competitive. All three scenarios would mean radical changes for the current systems and address problems that each of them has in maintaining or establishing a position in a market characterized by no more than 20-25 geostationary-orbiting commercial telecommunications satellites being competed for launch in a given year. The most surprising of the declarations came from Arianespace Chief Executive Stephane Israel, whose Evry, France-based company sees an opening to the now out-of-reach U.S. government market in the U.S. Air Force deliberation over whether U.S. government space system managers should seek a diversity of launch options. Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s Falcon 9 rocket is bidding to launch military satellites and is on a path toward U.S. Air Force certification.
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机译：3月11日，商业发射服务提供商提高了欧洲的“阿丽亚娜” 5火箭成为美国，国际海上发射成为俄罗斯以及高成本的日本H-2A火箭具有成本竞争力的可能性。所有这三种情况都将意味着当前系统的根本变化，并解决它们各自在维持或建立市场中所存在的问题，该市场的特点是在给定的一年内竞争不超过20-25颗对地静止轨道商业电信卫星。最令人惊讶的声明来自Arianespace首席执行官Stephane Israel，其总部位于法国Evry的公司认为，在美国空军对美国政府太空系统管理人员是否应该寻求咨询的问题上进行讨论时，这已经超出了美国政府的市场范围多种启动选项。 Space Exploration Technologies Corp.的Falcon 9火箭正在竞标发射军事卫星，并且正朝着获得美国空军认证的方向努力。
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