Public and Private Space: Russian Competitive Opportunities

... and Ukrainian companies entered the market with their carrier rockets and rocket engines. A little later they were joined by China, carrying out commercial launches of satellites with its rockets and producing satellites for customers in Africa and Latin ... ... hand it to the Americans for creating conditions for some of these people to remain in the profession and switch over to the commercial space sector or set up their space companies. This is how the “ecosystem” of private space exploration ...