Why SpaceX won the "space travel" war
A war of space tourism business between three world billionaires, "Elon Musk", CEO of Tesla. who founded the company "SpaceX" (SpaceX) "Jeff Bezos", the founder of the e-commerce platform "Amazon" who has founded theSLOT XOspace travel company "Blue Origin" (Blue Origin) and "Ri Shard Branson, the founder of the space travel company Virgin Galactic, has been very aggressive lately.
Earlier in July, Richard Branson traveled to low Earth orbit aboard the company's self-developed VSS Unity rocket. along with the experience "Weightlessness" before flying to land on the ground successfully.
A few days later, "Jeff Bezos" successfully flew into space in a rocket. "New Shepherd", which travels 80 kilometers above sea level. before landing safely on Earth as well
Meanwhile, four amateur astronauts are led by "Jared Isaacman", a billionaire American businessman and pilot. who is the founder and CEO of "Shift Objects" has flown into Earth orbit following the mission "Inspire 4" on the capsule spacecraft company "SpaceX" by the craft up to sail. on Earth's orbit for up to three days before falling into the Atlantic Ocean.
And most recently, on October 13, "Blue Origin" organized the second trip with 2 paid customers, one of them was "William Shatner. ” The 90-year-old Canadian actor who played “Captain Kirk” in the hit series Star Trek, was flying with him.
CNBC reported that Despite the three billionaires fiercely competing in the space tourism business, Elon Musk's "SpaceX" is a huge leader in space travel, followed by Jay's "Blue Origin". Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson's "Virgin Galactic" are at the end of the space travel battle.
The reason why Virgin Galactic is so much behind its competitors Because the company has announced that the space flight has been postponed for up to 8-10 months from the original scheduled flight by the end of this year. This means that Virgin Galactic will not offer space tourism services to the general public. until the end of next year
Michael Chiarmoli, analyst at Trust Financial Bank, said the delay in Virgin Galactic's spaceflight was a loss of momentum for the business. Especially after competitors such as SpaceX and Blue Origin have been successful. in moving forward the business in the past few months. It is also considered a business that can generate income.
News reports stated that Although Virgin Galactic was able to fly its passengers into space nine days ahead of Blue Origin last July, Blue Origin has flown. One more passenger flight has been in space, and another passenger flight is planned later this year, and three more next year.
While the 600 customers who have booked a space trip with Virgin Galactic have to wait indefinitely.