Americas / United States · Technology

SpaceX rocket success creates competition concerns

Rank
Ran: 4h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 2
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 2

The Economist United Kingdom · English 1 Oct, 12:44 UTC

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CNN Brasil, 1 Oct, 06:37 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Economist.
Second region: Europe, with The Economist.
Last article: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%

First movers

CNN Brasil 1 Oct, 06:37 UTC
The Economist +6h 7m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for first time, 27 to 29 Sept 2026, 138 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 2 outlets, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Brazil. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article CNN Brasil, 1 Oct 2026, 06:37 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 07:50 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for first time. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 07:50 UTC · Updated 12:44 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 2 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

CNN Brasil Brazil 1 Oct, 06:37 UTC
O megafoguete da SpaceX está prestes a alcançar um sucesso que mudará paradigmas. Isso está provocando uma “crise”

Europe 1 outlet

The Economist United Kingdom 1 Oct, 12:44 UTC
A rocket shortage gives SpaceX’s competitors an opportunity