the planet in 45 minutes. A space station the size of the ISS delivered to orbit for less than $100 million, and maybe much lower. Football field sized arrays of mirrors for deep space telescopes. Actual US Interstate highway grade construction equipment on the moon.*

It's like everyone else is using old school pioneer oxen carts, and Musk built a parallel train tracks that are cheaper, faster and quicker than anyone else. It is hard to overstate just how much of a lead SpaceX has. The only reason you would not use SpaceX is if you are a foreign agency that does not want the US to see your spy satellite, or you really, really hate Musk, like Jeff Bezos and want to set up your own service to compete with Starlink.

SpaceX is putting Boeing (ULA), the French, and the Russians out of business for commercial launches, although arguably ULA did that to itself for a long time. Blue Origin (Bezos) and China appear to be the only organizations with the will and the deep enough pockets to try to compete with SpaceX.



*(Yes, I understand these will need to be battery powered)