Rivals are rising to challenge the dominance of SpaceX

Some of these companies aim to Falcon 9 of Spacex, which can raise up to about 20,000 kilograms per orbit and use to send many satellites or the vehicle covered into space. “There is a practical monopoly in the average launch market at the present time, with only one operating vehicle,” says Moreel Baker, a spokesperson for Rockket Lab, a company in the United States, New Zealand.

Rocket Lab plans to take over Falcon 9 through the Newton missile, which is expected to have the opening flight later this year from the NASA flight facility in Virginia. The effort is to build the success of the company’s smaller electron missile, and the first phase of the neutron aims to reuse after umbrellas to the ocean.

Another competitor is Firefly, which is based in Texas, the Alpha missile can be launched from multiple goats so that it can reach different orbits. Firefly has already obtained NASA contracts and space power, with more launch operations this year (and on March 2, it also became the second private company to successfully start a spacecraft on the moon’s surface). Next year, the relative ratio aims to calm the first Terran R missile, which was partially built of 3D printed components. Bill Gatees -Backed Stoke Space aims to launch a reusable Nova missile in late 2025 or, most likely, next year.

Competitors also rise for Falcon Heavy from Spacex, and they reserve more options to send huge loads to higher orbits and deep space. The farthest along is a Vul in Centau missile, the creation of UNITED Launch Alliance, a joint project between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. It is expected to be launched third and fourth in the coming months, providing satellite satellites to orbit. Supported from Blue Origin engines, Vul in Centau is a little wider and shorter than the Falcon missiles. It is not currently reused, but it is less expensive than its predecessors, ATLAS V and DELTA IV, which is eliminated.

Mark Beller, the company’s first vice president on Vulpleopment and Advanced, says the new missile comes with multiple advantages. He says: “One is the total value, in terms of dollars per pound to orbit and what we can provide to our customers, and the second is ingenuity: Volcan is designed to go to a set of orbits.” He says more than 80 missions are already lining up.

The fifth flight of Volcan, which was not scheduled in May, will launch a long -awaited Sierra Dream Chaser, a space that can carry goods (and possibly crew) to the International Space Station. ULA also has the upcoming Volcan launch for the satellite constellation in Amazon, which is a possible competition.

Meanwhile, although it took a few years, the blue origin now has a truly heavy tropical spacecraft: in January, it celebrated the opening launch of NEW Glenn, a slightly shorter missile than NASA and Scapex’s Starship. Future flights can launch national security loads.

Competition appears abroad as well. After the frequent delay, the heavy Aryan 6 in Europe, from Airbus, had its opening journey last year, which ends the temporary accreditation of the European Space Agency on Spacex. A group of other companies trying to expand the ability of European launch, with the help of ESA.