What Happened
SpaceX Milestone Creates New Bottleneck in Space Launch Market
SpaceX’s Starship has reached orbit for the first time, deploying operational Starlink satellites. As the company prepares to focus on Starship, it plans to gradually retire Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft. This shift may create a new bottleneck in the space launch market, with fewer slots available for satellite launches and potential shortages of rockets and spacecraft for commercial customers and crewed missions. The development was reported by CNN and other sources, including Mezha.