03 April 2020
The latter half of the 2010s saw a plethora of mostly privately-funded, commercially-oriented launch companies emerge from China. The speed of development and number of companies can be exemplified by the fact that they fall rather neatly into two “generations”, namely the first generation of 4-5 companies mostly founded in 2014-2015, and the second generation of up to 10 companies founded mostly since 2018. 
Blaine Curcio of Orbital Gateway Consulting is looking into the latest developments and also gives an update on Expace April Fool’s stunt.
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