SpaceX has grown to 87% of the world’s tonnage to orbit, a new high in the first quarter of 2024. The graph uses a magnifying projection to even see the other domestic launch providers. The five Chinese launchers combined lofted 13.6x less than SpaceX. Europe was zero.
SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year.
Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon.
They file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us. Nextbigfuture notes the problem with copying is execution. It has taken over ten years for other companies to try to re-use the booster stage.
SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year.
Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon.
We file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us. https://t.co/XbisD1S5Wy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2024
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One million government monkeys cannot compete with one genius.
Kind of embarrassing that the Iranian space agency has launched more payloads to space than Blue Origin.