Launch startups in China and Europe are borrowing ideas and rhetoric from SpaceX.
I always asked myself, when?
When what? When hop? :)
They were/are doing things obviously right. Succeeding at the one thing that all Space adventurers & manufacturers strive for, re-usability.
Now others, using a similar approach, will enter the game and thus enable competition.
Idk, I’m always positive at the prospect of any kind of monopoly ending.
Edit: all my positivity refers to Europe entering the game. Sadly, the fact of China also being pretty much in the game, has become a reason for concern, since they made it clear again to be competing against all, instead of competing with all.
Well, even if China is competing against The West, it’s still better for everyone if China isn’t dropping hypergolic boosters on villages or playing reentry bingo with Long March 5B upper stages. Reusable rockets are just better all around.
Reusable rockets are just better all around.
Can’t disagree with that.
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