Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance · 15 mars 2024
SpaceX has only been around for 22 years and is doing laps on, well, the entire world.
Europe and Russia have largely done nothing in the last two decades to address the competition.
SpaceX just put a rocket into orbit today that will extend its lead dramatically, while just
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
If things go well, SpaceX will put about 50% more tonnage in orbit this year using Falcon, which would be above 90% market share.
Once Starship is in full swing building a city on Mars, it will do ~99% of all payload to orbit & beyond, as that objective requires about a megaton to Earth orbit per year
Unless other organizations aim for making life multiplanetary, their payload to orbit will necessarily be in the noise, as there isn’t enough to do just launching satellites.
06:27 · 15 mars 2024 · 130,9 k vues
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