> relying on a company that has never reached orbit and still struggles to make suborbital hops This is sadly far too common in most rocketry endeavours. space

> relying on a company that has never reached orbit and still struggles to make suborbital hops This is sadly far too common in most rocketry endeavours. spacex (any maybe some of the "private" chinese companies) are really outliers in this industry. The timelines are absurdly ambitious, and by the time you're doing regular flights the company you want to contract may have merged/split/been hit by sanctions three or four times.