The new space race: how China plans to break SpaceX’s launch monopoly with IPO push

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China is planning to challenge SpaceX's launch monopoly by adopting a coordinated strategy involving multiple aerospace companies pursuing IPOs. This approach leverages recent advances in reusable rocketry and aims to secure capital for scaling operations and capturing a greater share of the global aerospace market.

To challenge the global launch market dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Beijing is adopting a coordinated, multi-company “wolf-pack” strategy fuelled by recent engineering breakthroughs in reusable rocketry. The milestones come as a wave of aerospace firms push to secure the capital needed to scale operations and capture global market share. According to exchange filings in Shanghai and Hong Kong, at least 15 commercial aerospace companies were now in the pipeline to go public. Among the...