David Senra

The performance gap just keeps getting bigger.

In 2025, SpaceX launched more mass to orbit than every other provider on Earth combined.

Much more.

This is crazy.

Every payload from China, Russia, Europe, and all American launchers wasn't even a fifth.

of what SpaceX put into orbit.

They're the only company producing rockets at an industrial scale.

A Falcon 9 goes up every two to three days.

Competitors manage single-digit launches per year.

The same boosters have been reused 20 times each.

The company has sent astronauts to the International Space Station, the first private company to do so.

Starlink, their satellite internet constellation, now has over 9,000 satellites in orbit, the largest in history.

both built and launched by the same company.

SpaceX is now the most valuable private company on the planet.

Yet the skeptics were confident it couldn't happen.

Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Gene Kernan testified before Congress against commercial spaceflight.

They said that they thought reusability is a dream, and even if it did work, the market was too small to support the hundreds of launches needed to make reusability worth it.

Elon was described as a software guy playing with expensive toys.

The early failures seemed to confirm them.

Three Falcon 1 explosions between 2006 and 2008.