SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, a workhorse for the commercial space industry, is being phased out from the commercial launch market as the company redirects capacity to its Starlink constellation. Industry executives gathered at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris expressed concern about securing alternative launch providers, as SpaceX has reportedly stopped accepting rideshare reservations beyond late 2028 or early 2029 and made it effectively impossible to book Falcon 9 launches for commercial missions.