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رحلات الفضاء التجارية infographic
Graphic charts number of commercial space flights since 2000.
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رحلات الفضاء التجارية

By Ninian Carter

December 19, 2023 - تتصدر سبايس أكس مجال مشغلي الرحلات الفضائية التجارية بفارق كبير، فلقد أطلقت 281 رحلة منذ العام 2008، 90 منها في العام 2023 وحده. عدد الرحلات الجوية التجارية الأميركية منذ العام 2000 حتى الآن بلغ 494 رحلة.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX leads the field of commercial space flight operators by a long margin, launching 281 flights since 2008 – most of which took off in the last three years.

Other notable billionaire space pioneers include Richard Branson with 20 launches of his Virgin Galactic and now defunct Virgin Orbit launch vehicles, and Jeff Bezos with 17 launches of his Blue Origin rockets.

SpaceX has also become a valuable launch partner for the U.S. government and NASA, currently holding a multibillion-dollar contract with the latter to develop the massive Starship rocket into a lunar lander capable of delivering astronauts to the moon.

A recent increase in heavy launch frequency, particularly at SpaceX, is accelerating a fall in costs – a one kilogram package can be now sent into low-Earth orbit for just $1,500.

SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, is the world’s second-most valuable privately held startup with a valuation of $180 billion – China’s ByteDance is the most valuable at $225 billion.

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PUBLISHED: 20/12/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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