...which result in far less debris making its way down to earth since they commoditised the re-use of launch hardware. Had these launches been performed by ULA

...which result in far less debris making its way down to earth since they commoditised the re-use of launch hardware. Had these launches been performed by ULA or Arianespace or any of the other incumbents there'd be much more debris dropping to the seabed or - in the case of Russian and Chinese launchers - to the desert (Russia) or haphazardly strewn around populated areas (China [1]). [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/chinese-rocket-crushes-houses-after-government-warning-to-residents.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/chinese-rocket-crushes-house...