Tweet from everyone’s favourite war criminal:

According to @BryceSpaceTech, SpaceX lifted nearly 10 times as much mass to orbit in the second quarter of this year as its closest competitor, the nation of China.

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    More like 7x if you know maths (China appears twice in the list). Still impressive

    • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      China is on there 6 times if you count CAS Space, i-Space, ExPace, and Space Pioneer. Those smaller companies don’t add a ton, but it drops to “only” 6.5x if you include them.