Posted on 06/19/2026 12:17:47 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
🚀 The Q1 Rocket Report is out. SpaceX's market share of launch (both by kg to orbit and by number of spacecraft launched) is now 99% in the U.S. and 86% globally. China, Russia, and "other U.S." dropped from the prior quarter. Number of spacecraft launched grew 35% YOY.
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RS-25 engine powered the Space Shuttle and powers Artemis today. It cost around $50 million each, in 1980s money.
Raptor 3 engine generates more thrust, and costs less than $1 million. According to Google AI, substantially less.
And that’s in 2025 money.
Yep.
No one has done more to lower the cost of launching rockets like Musk has.
Here’s to the dreamers!
i love that someone has a Firefly Aerospace
“SpaceX’s market share of launch (both by kg to orbit and by number of spacecraft launched) is now 99% in the U.S. and 86% globally.” SpaceX delivers 76%-97% of global satellite broadband communications,depending upon metric. And Tesla has ~50 of the USA market for EVs.
So, what has Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders done lately? Oh, yeah, attack Elon Musk ...
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
What happens after a SpaceX rocket drops off its payload? For Tom Mueller—SpaceX's very first employee and the genius behind the Merlin engine—the answer is the foundation of a new multi-billion dollar empire. Forbes Reporter John Hyatt went inside the Los Angeles factory of Impulse Space to see how Mueller is solving the trillion dollar space economy's biggest bottleneck: the last mile. Discover why the man who helped Elon Musk conquer orbit is building a "taxi service for the cosmos," and why he believes the true space age is only just beginning.ÂSpaceX Employee #1 Is Building The Next Space Empire | 13:01Â
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