American Spacex by the number of starts exceeds all countries of the world, except China, tells Spacenews in the “Spacex vs.” publication, dedicated to the prospects of the company’s businessman and engineer Ilona Mask.
“Falcon 9 with a multi-sized first step launches more often than any other rocket – 26 times in 2020 and 27 times before December 2021. Spacex launches not only more often than any other company, but also ahead of all countries except China, “- Publications say.
The American publication reminds that “Spacex competition scales have grown together with its ambitions.” “When the company began its activities almost 20 years ago, it focused on the launches of small payloads, opposing Falcon 1 to other developers of small launch vehicles, including Russian companies dealing with the marketing of conversion intercontinental ballistic missiles,” the publication says.
The publication notes that at present there are practically any companies offering start-up services to eliminate payload in space, consider themselves a competitor to Spacex. “Even the representatives of the small missile industry are wary of the Spacex: although she has long refused Falcon 1, its services offer the elimination of small satellites on Falcon 9 as a backway load in much lower prices than special light carriers. Now these companies need to be explained as Their more expensive starting services, compared to Spacex, can offer the quality of service that justifies a higher price, “writes Spacenews.
Edition Notes that the Deployment of the Global Satellite Broadband System Starlink opened the “Second Front of Global Competition”, in which Spacex competes no longer with the American Alliance United Launch Alliance for public starts or with the European operator Arianespace for commercial contracts, and with Amazon companies , OneWeb and TeleSat. Spacenews notes that such competition “creates sharp conflicts for companies that could be open to doing business with Spacex as a launch customer if it did not mean support for the company developing a competing group.”
“At the moment, these companies have found alternatives that will probably be more expensive than Falcon 9. OneWeb uses the” Union “missiles [Russian production] to launch their grouping, while the Kuiper project from Amazon will start the deployment of their Satellites using some of the latest Atlas V missiles, – Publications say.
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