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To: NorthMountain

That goes for Europe as well. SpaceX’s Falcon and Falcon Heavy are basically the West’s only launch platform of note at present.

The Europeans are getting their space launch facilities and rockets in Scotland up to snuff. But it will be a few years yet until they are ready.

Japan and India are minor players in the commercial space business.


18 posted on 05/07/2024 8:08:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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SpaceX has more launches this year so far than the rest of the world combined. The same was true last year. China is a distant second, Russia is almost nonexistent. One could almost argue that Falcon is The WORLD'S only launch platform of note.

Most of SpaceX launches are for one particular customer: SpaceX. That, too, is something of a novelty.

19 posted on 05/07/2024 8:13:43 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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