Designing rockets takes years, consume a lot of budget and manufacturing them is expensive and take time. Therefore, reusing them is the current norm. Ariane 6 family of rockets are the latest rockets for ESA and their re-launchable versions would take years to be developed. How about catching the empty first stage up in the air and safely ground it with another rocket. Empty first stage of Ariane64 catched by an Ariane62 in the air, Mesospheric Rendezvous. It can be accomplished when the empty stage's speed is close to zero while falling. This idea can be tested on smaller rockets first.
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