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There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse

Eric Berger · 17 Aug 2026 · arstechnica.com

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  1. Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.
  2. And if things are bad now, there are reasons to believe they may get even worse over the next two to four years.
  3. The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.
  4. In financial documents, it’s clear that SpaceX views commercial launch as a rounding error compared to revenues from its own satellites in space.