Originally Posted by
Tyndmyr
Thus the "playing on this level." China and India are playing catch up with stuff we did many decades ago, the EU has a launch tempo that's pretty light(their historical launch data doesn't list anything after 2020), Blue Origin is a tourist thing.
There's a lot of programs out there, but SpaceX and the US gov are way ahead of the rest of these. The Starlink sats they've launched alone account for over a third of mankind's satellite cluster, and the US gov makes up most of the rest. They're the huge players in the market.