Chinese companies overtook Tesla in less than a decade, and now they're coming for his rockets too.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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I mean this was the whole point of the X prize and the private space race, right? Create competition to lower costs.
The current Long March series are already price-competitive-ish with SpaceX, but they're missing manufacturing capacity to continue churning out rockets. This seems to be the solution?
Curious to see what the economics of starship will shake out to be