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>>15390406
Beside BO and CASC-CALT ofc

If Super Heavy launchers become the most profitable category in the future, then I could see another chinese company making one, CASIC (or subsidiary) or SALT getting onboard, the later particularly since they still have their studies and preliminary work for a multicore, 3.8m diameter, YF-100k powered bid for the CZ-10/921 launcher which they lost to CALT

ISRO has a bunch of 20t+ proposals but afaik nothing Super Heavy, wouldn't expect anything there in the next 20 years.

In europe, only Arianegroup could do it, assuming the joint venture doesn't break up, they'll probably position themselves using maiaspace for the post-Ariane 6 competitions, There's potential for a methalox monocore RLV that could have a safely Super heavy multicore variant, but I'm not sure there will be any need or desire for that.

The russians are reportedly unfreezing their Super heavy launcher project, some of which are rather ambitious (there's been talks of a 120t Hydrogen Core + RP-1 Booster - energia like - super heavy launcher) but no way that's happening.

Not sure about america, Relativity and RL will probably launch toward increasing their size after Terran R and Neutron, the former being more easily scalable to a SHLV size ofc; ULA has an uncertain future, but maybe Lockheed could scale to SHLV if there are enough DOD payloads for that.