alt Hacker NewsWere those payloads enough to pay for a second SpaceX though? And could such a company compete on price with SpaceX if it is created?
TBH, Musk made his space market, but the only one capable of creating EuroSpace is Trump.
Were those payloads enough to pay for a second SpaceX though? And could such a company compete on price with SpaceX if it is created?
TBH, Musk made his space market, but the only one capable of creating EuroSpace is Trump.
> Were those payloads enough to pay for a second SpaceX though?
Today, probably not. When SpaceX announced "Falcon 5 and Falcon 9" as "the world’s first launch vehicles where all stages are designed for reuse" [1], the world was launching 55 payloads a year globally [2].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080815163222/http://www.spacex...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_in_spaceflight