https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-26-starlink-satellites/ Fri, 16 May 2025 23:44:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-26-starlink-satellites/#comment-1587287 Fri, 16 May 2025 23:44:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114115#comment-1587287 The PRC looks to be trying to get a bit of its own back with four launches scheduled in as many days vs. two for SpaceX and one for Rocket Lab during the same interval. But SpaceX has at least four more Falcon launches scheduled in May with schedule room for a fifth. There is also the Starship IFT-9 mission currently slated to go next Thursday. SpaceX could finish the month with 66 Falcons for the year to-date plus a Starship if all goes well. That would position SpaceX to achieve a year-to-date Falcon total of 80 or more by the end of June, an annualized rate in the low-to-medium 160s – a notable improvement over the annualized rate of 150 posted at the end of April. Perhaps a year-end total of 180 Falcons will not prove to be beyond reach after all.

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