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The Biden-Harris Administration has declared war on the person solely-responsible for keeping China from dominating Space. 90% of America's orbital launches - now at a rate of one every three days - are by SpaceX. Here’s every orbital launch since 1957:

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ApoStructura

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History scripted! 🇮🇳🚀 Congratulations to Team Skyroot Aerospace on the successful orbital launch of Vikram-1. India has now become the third nation in the world to achieve private orbital launch capability under leadership of PM Narendra Modi A proud milestone for India's space ecosystem & a powerful testament to the vision of unlocking the space sector for private innovation #IndiaWithVikram1

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China is set to debut its commercial crewed spacecraft in 2028, with the first batch of 20 self-funded space tourists booking the tickets for the CYZ1 spaceship. Among them are an 85-year-old scientist, high-tech company CEOs, a female poet, and a well-known male actor. The company behind CYZ1, interstellOr, was founded in January 2023 and specializes in developing reusable manned spacecraft and operating space tourism services. In China, there are around 600 private aerospace firms like interstellOr, but they still lag behind the American counterpart SpaceX. In 2025, China carried out nearly 100 orbital launches, with only 16 handled by private companies (by contrast SpaceX was responsible for over 160 launches among 180 executed in total). The scheduled launch, however, may change the landscape of global commercial space programs. Chinese space enthusiasts are on the edge of their seats for a venture on the home-made spacecraft, and even spacewalks and moon-landings are within reach.

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162,842 views • 7 months ago

👩‍🚀🇨🇳 China will test if one of the astronaut will be able to stay in space for a year — a standard mission currently lasts approximately 6 months The country has launched the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, carrying 3 astronauts to its Tiangong orbital station China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has not yet announced exactly which of the three it will be

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Lord Bebo

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Heartiest congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace on the successful launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota. Skyroot Aerospace has become the first Indian private company to place an orbital rocket into space. This marks a significant leap for India's space industry and makes India the third country in the world to achieve private orbital launch capability. Under the visionary leadership of Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji, India is scripting a new chapter in space exploration and has taken a giant leap towards becoming a global leader in space technology. The nation is rapidly progressing from an #AatmanirbharBharat towards the vision of a #ViksitBharat .

Heartiest congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace on the successful launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota. Skyroot Aerospace has become the first Indian private company to place an orbital rocket into space. This marks a significant leap for India's space industry and makes India the third country in the world to achieve private orbital launch capability. Under the visionary leadership of Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji, India is scripting a new chapter in space exploration and has taken a giant leap towards becoming a global leader in space technology. The nation is rapidly progressing from an #AatmanirbharBharat towards the vision of a #ViksitBharat .

Jagat Prakash Nadda

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Mario Nawfal

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Elon Musk reveals what SpaceX is gearing up to do in the next five years "Five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth" "100 gigawatts is on the order of 10,000 Starship launches. You want to do that in one year. That's like one Starship launch every hour" "It really depends on how quickly the ship has to go around the Earth and come back over the launch pad. If you can use a ship every 30 hours, you could do it with 30 ships" "SpaceX is gearing up to do 10,000 launches a year, and maybe even 20 or 30,000 launches a year" "If some of my predictions come true, SpaceX will launch more AI than the cumulative amount on Earth of everything else combined"

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190,415 views • 7 months ago

Elon Musk on why a fully reusable orbital heat shield is one of the hardest problems in rocketry: “No one has ever developed a fully reusable orbital heat shield. When you come in from orbital velocity, you come in like a flaming meteor - a raging ball of fire. It’s hard to have a heat shield that doesn’t partially melt or get destroyed in that process” This is exactly the brutal challenge SpaceX is solving right now SpaceX now has the most advanced heat tiles in history. These continuous V3 upgrades ensure the thermal protection system survives extreme reentry without needing complete refurbishment between flights

Elon Musk on why a fully reusable orbital heat shield is one of the hardest problems in rocketry: “No one has ever developed a fully reusable orbital heat shield. When you come in from orbital velocity, you come in like a flaming meteor - a raging ball of fire. It’s hard to have a heat shield that doesn’t partially melt or get destroyed in that process” This is exactly the brutal challenge SpaceX is solving right now SpaceX now has the most advanced heat tiles in history. These continuous V3 upgrades ensure the thermal protection system survives extreme reentry without needing complete refurbishment between flights

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🚀 India just made space history. Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 successfully reached orbit on its very first orbital launch attempt from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Think about how difficult that is. Most new orbital rockets don’t make it on their maiden flight. Skyroot just went from development to orbit on attempt #1. And this isn’t just a win for Skyroot. 🇮🇳 India is now the 3rd country in the world. after the United States and China, to have a private company successfully demonstrate orbital launch capability. Vikram-1 reached an orbit of roughly 450 km and completed its mission in under 20 minutes. A privately developed Indian rocket, designed and built in India, reaching orbit on its first try. That’s a massive milestone for India’s private space industry. The era of Indian private spaceflight has officially arrived. 🇮🇳🚀

🚀 India just made space history. Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 successfully reached orbit on its very first orbital launch attempt from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Think about how difficult that is. Most new orbital rockets don’t make it on their maiden flight. Skyroot just went from development to orbit on attempt #1. And this isn’t just a win for Skyroot. 🇮🇳 India is now the 3rd country in the world. after the United States and China, to have a private company successfully demonstrate orbital launch capability. Vikram-1 reached an orbit of roughly 450 km and completed its mission in under 20 minutes. A privately developed Indian rocket, designed and built in India, reaching orbit on its first try. That’s a massive milestone for India’s private space industry. The era of Indian private spaceflight has officially arrived. 🇮🇳🚀

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ELON: SPACEX LAUNCHES 10X AS MUCH AS THE REST OF THE WORLD “SpaceX has a very dominant position in space launch. Of the mass launched to orbit this year, SpaceX will probably do 90%. China will do half of the remaining amount, so 5%. And the rest of the world, including the rest of the U.S. will do about 5%. So SpaceX will do about 10 times as much as the rest of world combined or 20 times as much as China, and China is doing actually a very impressive job.” Source: Interview at the Qatar Economic Forum, May 2025

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Mario Nawfal

45,494 views • 10 months ago

Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch 10,000 Starships a year — one every hour. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 about once a week. Other rocket companies launched once a year, if at all. ULA. Arianespace. Roscosmos. The total global cadence: maybe two hundred orbital launches a year. "That's like one Starship launch every hour." A launch at noon. A launch at one. A launch at two. Twenty-four launches a day. Three hundred sixty-five days. From a single launch pad. In a single Texas town. Then Musk reframed the cadence. "That's actually a lower rate compared to airlines, aircraft. There's a lot of airports." He named the model: the Starship airport. A single pad doing the work of a hundred. Musk, whose Starbase had already shipped two boosters in flight, knew an airport's rhythm. A fleet of 20 to 30 reusable Starships, each rotating through a 30-hour ground-cycle, would carry a million tons of payload to orbit per year — the volume required to make AI in space cheaper than AI on Earth. "You could probably do it with as few as 20 or 30." 20 ships. 30-hour cycle. 10,000 launches. One billion-dollar machine flying every 30 hours, year-round. After Musk drew the cadence, Starship became an airline. Mostly cargo. Some humans. Plenty of fuel. Musk, on the new ceiling: "SpaceX is gearing up to do 10,000 launches a year, and maybe even 20 or 30,000 launches a year." What's a frequency you've defaulted to that should actually be 100x more often? P.S. I made a playbook breaking down 100+ most powerful decision making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab a free copy here: If you're new here, follow GeniusThinking for content on the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. — Elon Musk ( Elon Musk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( Dwarkesh Patel ) podcast

Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch 10,000 Starships a year — one every hour. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 about once a week. Other rocket companies launched once a year, if at all. ULA. Arianespace. Roscosmos. The total global cadence: maybe two hundred orbital launches a year. "That's like one Starship launch every hour." A launch at noon. A launch at one. A launch at two. Twenty-four launches a day. Three hundred sixty-five days. From a single launch pad. In a single Texas town. Then Musk reframed the cadence. "That's actually a lower rate compared to airlines, aircraft. There's a lot of airports." He named the model: the Starship airport. A single pad doing the work of a hundred. Musk, whose Starbase had already shipped two boosters in flight, knew an airport's rhythm. A fleet of 20 to 30 reusable Starships, each rotating through a 30-hour ground-cycle, would carry a million tons of payload to orbit per year — the volume required to make AI in space cheaper than AI on Earth. "You could probably do it with as few as 20 or 30." 20 ships. 30-hour cycle. 10,000 launches. One billion-dollar machine flying every 30 hours, year-round. After Musk drew the cadence, Starship became an airline. Mostly cargo. Some humans. Plenty of fuel. Musk, on the new ceiling: "SpaceX is gearing up to do 10,000 launches a year, and maybe even 20 or 30,000 launches a year." What's a frequency you've defaulted to that should actually be 100x more often? P.S. I made a playbook breaking down 100+ most powerful decision making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab a free copy here: If you're new here, follow GeniusThinking for content on the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. — Elon Musk ( Elon Musk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( Dwarkesh Patel ) podcast

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