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To be fair literally no one else is doing this, not Russia, not China, not Japan, not Europe.


China has at least one Falcon 9 clone in testing stages (that one that accidentally launched during static fire a while ago) and many new-space rocket companies have reusable vehcles in pipeline (eq. Rocketlabs Neutron). Even Europe is going to do that - eventually. :P


> that one that accidentally launched during static fire a while ago

Sounds like china currently has zero rockets that are reusable


RocketLab (US/New Zealand) has been recovering stages for awhile. I think they're getting close to reflying one.


That is exactly my point. It has been 10 years and aside from some small baby steps, no incumbent has declared clearly and vocally that reusability is the future. They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.


> They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.

Not true, ArianeGroup has decided that reusability is the future with their Ariane Next program [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next


Yep. My point is, it's that it's actually a hard problem




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