SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites
SpaceX today successfully launched another 23 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage completed its third flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
48 SpaceX
19 China
6 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the world combined in successful launches, 55 to 31. SpaceX by itself now leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 48 to 38.
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SpaceX today successfully launched another 23 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral.
The first stage completed its third flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
48 SpaceX
19 China
6 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise now leads the world combined in successful launches, 55 to 31. SpaceX by itself now leads the rest of the world, including other American companies, 48 to 38.
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120 is within reach at this pace
Bob When you do your annual totals it would be interesting to know Starlink vs Non-Starlink lunches
I think 15 Falcon 9s so far have been non-Starlink. So something like 34 Starlinks so far this year?
Col Beausabre0,
By my calculation, SpaceX is launching an average of 2.6 times per week, so far this year. At that rate, without an increase in cadence, that could be 136 launches this year. My calculation is that the Company would have to launch at a cadence of 3 per week for the rest of the year in order to reach 150 orbital launches this year.
Col Beausabre0
May 8, 2024 at 2:58 pm
120 is within reach at this pace
This pace gets to 135 actually. 120 would be 10 per month average.
All: Remember, the 150 target goal included 6 Starship/Superheavy launches.