I think SpaceX is a long result of the American space industry. It wasn't that last few years, SpaceX jumped to the top. PRC was always behind the USA. However, the dynamics of SpaceX is troublesome for China. Elon has technology, talent, money, and brand fanboys. If Starship is going to be real in the next few years it will be a huge problem for other rocket builders around the world.
China has always been the quiet kid at the back of the class doing his own thing.
They will, until the US government pulls NASA law 2.0 and all your planning goes down the toilet since SpaceX won't provide service to you anyomre
Rockets are not one of my main interests and I'm not knowledgeable on them. That might have been my first comment here. It was a genuine question. I read articles into it but none of them indicated the true significance of this. They just said that it took off, flew to an unspecified height, then exploded on landing. I know rockets can do #1 and #2 but #3 was not successful so what was the impressive part? Real question.
Doesn't every surface-launched missile do that?
hmm, that sounds like 98% successful.
