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I'm sorry no, you should spend some time actually understanding the industry.

JAXA builds a tiny amount of rockets, almost exclusively for their own use. They have never been a significant player and its very unlikely that will change anytime soon.

Its pure fantasy to suggest otherwise. And even if they could reliably hit these prices at commercial launch scale, Falcon 9 could easily lower their prices if real competitors actually existed.

If H3 was such a dynamic thread as you suggest, why did Amazon not buy 100s of launches from them. They bought launches from every SpaceX competitor, but not Japan.

> I don't know what India or China charge for foreign customers, but is it really reasonable to expect worse deal than Mitsubishi from them? ...

China isn't really relevant. Western stuff is just not going to fly from China.

India used to do more commercial stuff, but SpaceX Rideshare is far, far, far more popular.

The reality is, India large rockets, like Japan, is mostly build for their own program, they don't really have that much access capability.



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