Who launches more rockets to orbit: one company, or the entire rest of the world combined?
2018: SpaceX 21 orbital launches. Everyone else: 93.
2024: SpaceX 138. Everyone else combined: 125.
2025: SpaceX 170. Everyone else combined: 159.
Falcon 9 flew 165 times in 2025 with zero failures. And SpaceX rockets carried about 82% of all spacecraft mass launched to orbit in 2025 (2,225 of 2,712 tonnes), and 85% of all spacecraft (3,854 of 4,544).
In June 2026 Elon Musk said: "SpaceX delivers almost 90% of all Earth mass to orbit."
And the next goal with Starship: "So we think probably we can get to a million tons to orbit per year, in about three years, thereabouts."
From 21 launches in 2018 to a million tons a year.