Did you know that both SpaceX and Blue Origin (Bezos) began in the very early 2000s. Blue Origin is famous for taking Captain Kirk up and down, a suborbital jaunt of a few minutes.
Elon Musk and SpaceX have revolutionized rocketry and space travel. With the mastery of reusability, the cost of placing humans and ‘stuff’ in space has plummeted. The SpaceX Falcon 9 workhorse is now more reliable than Boeing. Some of the Falcon 9 first stages have flown twenty times, and plans are in the works to increase that reusability to 40 times.
The MASSIVE Super Heavy, 33 engines rocket is not yet reusable, but it has proven it can boost large amounts of stuff into orbit. In the last test launch, SpaceX proved it could not just boost the massive Starship vehicle into space, the Super Heavy booster also returned to Earth under control, and ‘landed’ in a specific spot. As this is still testing, it landed in the ocean, to make sure that if something went wrong, no one was in danger. Very soon the huge booster will launch and return to the launch area, just like the Falcon 9.
If you have never seen the video of the Falcon Heavy twin rockets returning and landing simultaneously in Florida, be sure to look it up.
Ariane 6 is not reusable, and will not be a long-term tool. Many, many companies and countries have chosen SpaceX to launch their large and small satellites and probes. The cost is in the millions instead of billions, and reliable. In fact, part of the Bezos space adventure is the Kuiper Internet Satellite system (Amazon), a supposed competitor to StarLink. The Amazon / Kuiper board of directors did not, at first, consider SpaceX as a possible launch provider. SpaceX has even launched OneWeb satellites, another StarLink competitor.
Be sure to check out Robert Zimmerman and his amazing website https://www.behindtheblack.com for all things space, rocketry, etc.
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And space junkie?
As long as SpaceX sticks to orbital launches, its great. Moon and Mars no so much.