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also a man who built monopoly on launches to space
by option 3y ago
also a man who built monopoly on launches to space
- eole666 3y agoWell, he's a fine businessman but maybe a little bit overconfident about a lot of things
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow is it a monopoly? He made it cheap but others are also trying to compete, they're just not as good as SpaceX yet.
- Veedrac 3y agoSince SpaceX entered the market, ULA has stopped selling both its flight ready rockets with no replacement ready, Ariane has finished flying with no replacement ready, the Space Shuttle has stopped flying and its role has been replaced by SpaceX, Soyuz is no longer available for US and many other markets, China's rockets are similarly unavailable in the US, and a great many new competitors continue not to have vehicles that exist. Electron and some small number of less robust small launch players fly but compete in a market segment SpaceX abandoned in 2009. SLS exists but has zero commercial customers and will never have more. India and Japan's rockets exist but have near-zero market presence. The strongest sense in which SpaceX is not a monopoly is that other companies let you order flights on vehicles that don't exist yet, but hopefully may soon.
- satvikpendem 3y agoNone of those are the fault of SpaceX. Perhaps they simply couldn't compete with the lower prices being offered.
- Veedrac 3y agoI think you may be reading the term ‘monopoly’ in a nonstandard way. SpaceX being a monopoly just refers to them being a single dominant supplier in active launch, which is a position they built by fairly outcompeting other companies.
- msla 3y agoHe invested in an engineering company. That doesn't mean he understands engineering.