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Rocket Labs, Stoke Space, Deep Blue, Landspace, Space Pioneer, iSpace, Galactic. (The last five are Chinese startups).

Rocket Labs has recovered (not reflown) several orbital boosters, and the rest are within 1-2 years of orbital booster recovery attempts.

So the correct answer is "nobody else has the capability"

I'll be thrilled when someone does! Competition is great! But let's do it via technological progress, not through abuse of the english language.

He did say “orbital booster recovery” which is 160,000 meters. Honda reached 300 meters which is about the height of a tall skyscraper

I think the DC-X program did this first in the 90s. It ran into funding issues and it turns out there isn't a ton of value in reusable rockets that only go a few hundred feet (although more advanced applications are potentially worthwhile)

Here an amateur doing it all on its own https://youtu.be/SH3lR2GLgT0