SpaceX launched 233 tons to orbit while second place, the country of China, launched less than 24 tons to orbit. SpaceX launched about 5 times more than China and Russia combined.
SpaceX launched 763 satellites or spacecraft while everyone else launched 106.
Today’s SpaceX Starlink launch:
• 233rd launch by Falcon rocket family
• 83rd launch primarily dedicated to Starlink network
• 31st SpaceX launch of 2023
• 9th launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2023
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You forgot Arianespace, the European Space Agency, ESA (they lauched the J. Webb telescope, by the way) in your numbers.
There were no ESA launches in Q1 2023. First ESA launch of the year was in Q2, JUICE on April 14.
That was in December 2021 bro….
Yet Thundetf00tinhismouth has the gall to poke fun at Musk as a failure