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Europe Tentatively Considers Copying SpaceX While China Has Four Companies Racing to Catchup
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangEurope is tentatively starting a low commitment reusable rocket program nine years after SpaceX announced their program. Europe is looking to take three years to do what SpaceX did in less than one year. Europe might get to where SpaceX was in 2015 in 2035. Meanwhile, China has at least four companies eagerly chasing SpaceX. One of China's companies is at the Blue Origin level of supersonic sub-orbital tests.
In Reusable rockets we appear to have:
First Mover – SpaceX
Fast Followers – Blue Origin and Chinese Long March and China startups
Late Entrant – Europe