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Commercial
How landing boosters rewrote the economics of spaceflight
Recovering an orbital booster was long assumed to be uneconomic. Falcon 9 disproved that operationally, and the industry has spent the years since reorganising around reuse — with one harder problem still unsolved.
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By June, 2026 was already one of the busiest years in launch history
Barely half over, 2026 had logged 131 orbital launch attempts — driven by a Falcon 9 fleet flying every few days, a surging Chinese sector, and the maiden flight of Europe's heaviest Ariane 6.
