This chart from “Small Launch Vehicles – A 2018 State of the Industry Survey” shows the growth of the Small launcher market from 2015-2018. Some 34 small rockets are in active development worldwide.

The number of small launch vehicles under development continues to grow despite some high-profile setbacks and uncertainty about the demand for such vehicles.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...