The Most Unfair Fight In History: What the Market Is Missing

By the middle of 2026, Starlink had more than 10,000 working satellites in orbit and about 12 million customers around the world. In 2025, after about 25 years as a company, Blue Origin finally put its big orbital rocket, New Glenn, into orbit on January 16th. That same year, Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX flew its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket about 167 times. And then in May of 2026, an explosion during a ground engine test damage launch complex 36, which is Blue Origin's Florida pad for New Glenn. SpaceX ran that loop for years on Falcon 9. By the middle of 2026, individual Falcon first stages were flying into the mid30s, some of them over 36 times. In 2025 about 120 flights out of 160 were Starlink class missions. In an early July update in 2026, Amazon reported about production LEO satellites in orbit after 14 missions. That is much earlier scale than Starlink's more than 10,000 working satellites.

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