From Starship to Starlink to civilian flights, the California company is growing a 'monopoly' in space
"SpaceX almost has a monopoly of launchers — not only human, but also unmanned as well," Pablo de Leon, chair of the University of North Dakota's space studies department, told Space.com.
SpaceX's Starship SN15 rocket prototype launches on an uncrewed 10-kilometer test flight from SpaceX's Starbase test site near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on May 5, 2021. It was the first Starship to land successfully.and to land people on Mars within five years, but the latter will depend on Musk's Starship system working properly; Starship hasn't even had an orbital mission yet. That said, De Leon praised Musk's approach to testing, failing and learning from it.
De Leon added that as a private company, SpaceX has more room to fail than NASA"or any government agency," although the big question is what will happen if a human spaceflight system fails and SpaceX must wait several years for an investigation to complete, as NASA'sElon Musk says SpaceX's Falcon 9 reusability is key to success in the new documentary"Space Titans."
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