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It was a great, great year. Nobody else had a good year, but Rocketry did. Bob, a very

good evening to you. The word you use is boom. What happened?

Boom is the word that came to my mind. Every year, in January, I do a report based upon what

launches or cheeses successfully during the past year. 2022 was undeniable the best year

in Rocketry and the history of space and spotnic. That is talking about the number of commercial

number of launches successful worldwide. The record was that last year beating out the

highest number from the 70s for the single one year of the most launches. This year,

the number of launches across the globe broke last year's record and it was done by more

than 33%. The numbers were unprecedented this year. There were 179 successful launches

in the year. That is one every other day, essentially. In the past, to get 100 launches in a year

was difficult. It would be happened once in a while, especially, but almost never happened

after the fall of the Soviet Union. You are almost never get 200 launches after the

fall of the Soviet Union. Now we had 170 launches last year. The interesting thing about this

is that it is almost entirely because of the rise of commercial space. Two particular

countries did last year, SpaceX and Rocket Lab in the United States made a possible

to the US itself to set a new record for the most launches it has done in a single year.

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