Why Tesla is having a harder time than SpaceX
I&#x27;ve been following the SpaceX trainspotting (rocketspotting?) community for a while; in the process I&#x27;ve read bits and pieces about the launch industry in general.<p>The heavy-lift launch market is, indeed, an easy one to compete in; Bezos is slow out of the gate, and the rest of the competition comes from some truly wacko engineering organizations. The car industry already optimized its products and processes for cost and efficiency, while the (American) competition seems not to have even tried. (The European and Russian programs have their own handicaps, and India is doing just fine in the adjacent medium-lift market.)