Spacefaring Power: Starting with Private Rockets

"One minute countdown, get ready." "Power on control system, power on telemetry system, power on self-destruct program." "Optics, USB, radar, telemetry, tracking signal normal." "3, 2, 1—Initiate ignition sequence, liftoff!" "Escape tower separation, booster separation, first and second stage separation, satellite-rocket separation!"... SpaceX's 10,000-ton Starship is far ahead; Russia's Angara Heavy rocket is far ahead; the ESA's Ariane rocket and Japan's H3 series are close behind. Qin Yu: "Sorry, all the rockets here are garbage!" Then he pulled out the G60 Starlink, the Commercial Space Station, and...